[Digikam-users] Re: Can't enter accented characters in album names - but can paste them

[Gilles Caulier]

launch pop-up menu over album name field and look if there is a
vocabulary auto-correction option from KDE.

Gilles

2010/9/29 Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 02:37:06PM +0200, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>> 2010/9/29 Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:
>> > I occasionally want to put accented characters into my album names,
>> > for example I want to put the French town name Nérac in a name.
>> >
>> > I can type the é just about anywhere (terminals, Firefox, etc.) using
>> > the 'multi' key and typing e and '.  It doesn't work in digikam
>> > though, can this be fixed?  I can paste an é into the digikam album
>> > name but this is a bit clumsy.
>> >
>> > This is digikam 1.2 on xubuntu.
>> >
>> Not reproducible there. KDE 4.4.4, digiKam 1.5.0 from svn trunk.
>>
>> I'm French and i also use accentuate char of course.
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
> How odd.
>
> Ah, I've discovered the problem, for some reason in Digikam the order in
> which the characters are typed is important!
>
> If I type   <multi> e '   in Digikam I get nothing, however if I type
> <multi> ' e   then I get an é.  Everywhere else it doesn't seem to matter
> in what order I type the characters.
>
> Anyway, I have a reasonable workaround now.  :-)
>
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> Chris Green
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