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

[Chris G]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 05:05:19PM +0200, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> launch pop-up menu over album name field and look if there is a
> vocabulary auto-correction option from KDE.
> 
If I right click on the album name entry field (is that what you meant?)
I get a menu of options like 'Undo', 'Clear' and some others with
'Insert unicode control character' at the bottom - but no
auto-correction option.

> 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