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Did the people with this problem ever try to use Crtl-accent?
For instance typing my first name: Ren Crtl-' e
BTW: in NT 4.0 it wil be enough to type: Ren'e tot get René if you installed your keyboard as US-international.
In Win9x you need to use de Crtl-key.
[This message was edited by René van der Houwen on November 24, 2000 at 06:51 AM.]
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Good tip, René, it seems to work with everything I tried on my azerty keyboard, except ¨(because that requires shift).
I seem to remeber that in Xara 2, I had to copy @ from the character map too beacause I got a ? there
Stijn
www.defunkt.net
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Tot get it clear:
Sometimes you need type Crtl-shift-accent
For instance: ñ you get by typing Crtl-shift-~ n
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To get it clear, I don't mean
the french/spanish òõñ etc. Foreign language
Windows use alternative keyboards e.g. Greek
keyboard, Cyrillic keyboard etc.
The accented characters of THOSE
keyboards are impossible to enter.
Although, as Mark Goodall stated the fonts
are saved as UNICODE, it is very difficult
if impossible to enter these chars through the foreign keyboard.
This, I believe, is due to Xara ignoring
the standard keyboard translation libraries
of Windows, and using their own in-house
libraries.
This problem was since version 1 of Xara
and given Xara's upgrade record, I don't
see it fixed any time soon.
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Thanasis
We are actively looking at the problems with Greek and other keyboards, our problems only exist on Win95/98/ME systems.
For instance the attached image was created by selecting Greek and Russian keyboards on my NT system and inputting all the keys in the normal and shifted states, those of you who are familiar with the keyboard layout will recognise this is correct (checked against the relevant documentation).
The font used was Times New Roman true type.
Also the problem documented by Nikolai Popov about using the character map utilty for entering arbitrary characters on 2000 has been fixed, this was already working on NT.
Mark Goodall
Xara Ltd