Pasting non-english characters (diacritics & accents)
by Manoel Neto · in Torque Game Engine · 04/29/2006 (11:47 am) · 2 replies
Hi,
When I type characters using diacrits in notepad, as example, and copy-n-paste them into a text edit control in TGE, they come up as squares instead.
The characters come up fine if you type they directly using a keyboard with direct support for outputting them (like french and german keyboards), but they are otherwise impossible to input in some keyboard layouts (like brazillian and spanish), since TGE doesn't seem to support standard key combos used to input diacritics in certain languages, since pressing a diacritic key like
When I type characters using diacrits in notepad, as example, and copy-n-paste them into a text edit control in TGE, they come up as squares instead.
The characters come up fine if you type they directly using a keyboard with direct support for outputting them (like french and german keyboards), but they are otherwise impossible to input in some keyboard layouts (like brazillian and spanish), since TGE doesn't seem to support standard key combos used to input diacritics in certain languages, since pressing a diacritic key like
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.. i just tried again, exactly entering them into notepad then copying to torque; works fine.
i don't think we've mussed with anything relevant in that part of the code,
so maybe this is a bug introduced in 1.4 ?
let me DL the 1.4 demo and see if it works.
AHA !
looks like yet another bug in 1.4's text fields,
i get exactly what you describe.
04/29/2006 (4:07 pm)
Manoel - strange, i've had no problems pasting diacritics into TGE 1.3 text fields... i just tried again, exactly entering them into notepad then copying to torque; works fine.
i don't think we've mussed with anything relevant in that part of the code,
so maybe this is a bug introduced in 1.4 ?
let me DL the 1.4 demo and see if it works.
AHA !
looks like yet another bug in 1.4's text fields,
i get exactly what you describe.
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