Nope, "space" followed by "Shift-Option-N" gives a greek iota...
I tried other combinations, unsuccessfully.
IDLE 3 (French) seems to be unusable as we use many ~ in web applications :-(
Should we hope a fix soon, or leave IDLE ?
Thanks,
franck
In article <mailman.3825.1324322364.27778.python-l...@python.org>,
Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote:
> In article <franck-6efd3c.10155219122...@news.free.fr>,
> Franck Ditter <fra...@ditter.org> wrote:
> > All is in the subject. I'm starting to use Python with Idle 3.2.2
> > on MacOS-X Lion (French). I can't get "Option-N space" to provide
> > the ~ char.
> > I tried to go into the Keys preferences but I can't find "Option-N space"
> > to modify its meaning. Its actual behavior is to merge lines of a
> > paragraph.
>
> You are likely running into a current problem in the OS X Cocoa version
> of Tcl/Tk 8.5 as included with Lion and as shipped by ActiveState.
> Previously, if you tried to type composite characters, like Option N,
> the Cocoa Tcl/Tk would crash. Pending a real fix, a patch was made to
> Tcl/Tk 8.5 to discard composite characters rather than crash. You
> should be able to get a tilde by using the post-composite keyboard
> sequence: try typing "space" followed by "Shift-Option-N".
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2907388&group_id=12997&atid=112997
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