On 04/03/2010 07:05 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Christoph Sch?fer wrote: >> Am Samstag, 3. April 2010 01:33:15 schrieb Gustavo Nicodemo: >>> Submitted on 04/03/2010 >>> Submitted by anonymous user: [10.1.6.26] >>> >>> Submitted values are: >>> >>> Your contact information: >>> Name: Gustavo Nicodemo >>> Email Address: lgnicodemo at hotmail.com >>> Your request content: >>> Subject: using symbols like ', ^, ~ >>> Message: >>> I can't use symbols like "~", very used in portuguese writing. To obtain >>> "?", for example, usually just need to press '~' and 'a'. Doing this I'm >>> obtaining "~a" in Scribus. What I need to do to obtain "?"?. Thanks. >> >> This is an issue with some Linux distros, including the one you are >> using. One of our developers is currently working on a fix that will >> prevent the issue on those platforms. It won't be available for >> 1.3.3.x, though. > > Not only Linux: > > On MacOSX 10.6 with the X11 version of Scribus-1.3.6, dead keys do not > work, neither in the story editor nor directly in the text frame. > > With the aqua version, dead keys work in the story editor, but not in > the text frame. > > Composite characters that are directly available, for example accented > characters on a French keyboard or c-cedilla on a Portuguese keyboard, > are working in all these cases. Only the dead keys do not work. > There also seems to be some unpredictable hardware (keyboard?) issues. My Fedora 12 works fine with Story Editor, not directly in the frame (Edit Contents), but I have an older computer running F12 that refuses to make ? anywhere with a compose key, even outside of Scribus.
What I have done in the past sometimes is use Klipper to save a number of accented characters -- as clumsy as that is, it can be faster than some other workarounds. Greg
