Fwd: Re: dead-key problem

From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Mar 30 2003 - 14:35:48 EST

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    My suggestion worked. Sending this to the list for
    future reference and archival purposes.

    Dom

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    thanx * 1 000 000 !
    changing "input methods" to X solved everything!!!
    just can't believe this was so simple!
    you wouldn't believe how much unicode documentation and stuff like that
    i have listed!
    you're my hero! :)

    Dom Lachowicz wrote:

    >Hi Gatis,
    >
    >
    >
    >>I've just installed AW 1.1.4 (still best WYSIWYG
    >>editor i know) on
    >>RedHat8 (GNOME) and spent two evenings trying to
    >>make the 'dead-keys'
    >>work correctly (without much success). Looks like
    >>the reason is some
    >>encoding stuff as my .abw files headers starts with
    >><?xml version="1.0"
    >>encoding="UTF-8"?> (encoding is 'default' according
    >>to statusbar).
    >>
    >>
    >
    >The word 'default' in the statusbar refers to your
    >keybindings. AbiWord supports 'default' MSWord-style
    >keybindings, 'vi' style, and 'emacs' style. The
    >encoding of your files (UTF8) has absolutely nothing
    >to do with your ability (or in this case, inability)
    >to type text.
    >
    >
    >
    >>Below is the snippet that i found in the danish
    >>deadkey how-to ...
    >>
    >>
    >
    >AbiWord uses the GTK2 input-method specification to
    >accept text, and I have personally seen it accept
    >ISO-8859-1 text, Cyrillic text, CJK text, Arabic text,
    >Hebrew text, and Yiddish text. If AbiWord isn't
    >accepting your input, it's quite likely that the
    >problem lies in GTK2, or in how GTK2 is talking to
    >your X input method.
    >
    >You may wish to right-click in the document window, go
    >to "Input Methods" and select "X Input Method" from
    >the list. This *might* work for you.
    >
    >
    >
    >>(There is a way to 'hack' 1.0.X versions by changing
    >>(re-making) abiword
    >>default fonts with MS true type fonts - but seams
    >>that it can not be
    >>used with 1.1.X? as common gnome (X11) fonts are
    >>used now ! Although i
    >>doubt if the fonts are problem as driver (key-map
    >>file actually) wich
    >>uses much more simple logic (right-alt key (and is
    >>moch more
    >>inconvenient)) works ok)...or maybe there are source
    >>files that can be
    >>modified to set iso8859-13 as default?
    >>
    >>
    >
    >AbiWord 1.1.4 uses FontConfig for font discovery. If
    >your fonts are in "standard" places that FontConfig
    >knows about, we should be able to load and use them
    >effortlessly.
    >
    >Dom
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