Re: German Keyboard support...

[Fred Kiefer]

On 13.11.2011 17:22, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
> > I'm seeing problems with supporting German keyboards on Windows.
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience regarding this?
> What is your problem? Are you referring to current SVN? Italian
> keyboards generally share the same problems.
> I do not ontice anything special under Windows, however Fred and I are
> struggling for meta support given left-alt, right-alt and AltGr (the
> latter two not being the same and Italian and German keyboard have the
> latter which is neede for the generaiton of certain essential characters
> like [] {} @ #)

Riccardo,

my change was specific to X and even there it wont affect any code that 
did not filter out the alternate modifier key events as special code 
specifically. As far as I am aware only Terminal does so and this 
certainly wont work on Windows.

The problem Greg seems to refer to is on Windows and neither from him, 
nor from the original reporter did I get any specific information what 
is going wrong there. Something as simple as saying pressing "@" results 
in "q" would really help to reproduce the problem. In Greg's case I am 
sure he did not "see" the problem, more likely he heard about it. It is 
this ignorance that stopped me from actually installing GNUstep on a 
physical Windows machine to see for myself.

Fred