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/Torben · Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Denmark

Not surprisingly, I got the same result as jordi did.

Do you not have diacritic on American ketboards?

/Torben

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10465

Dead keys were a completely new concept to me; they do not exist in the US English keyboard layout. Fortunately, it is easier than I thought to switch keyboard layouts, so now I can try to really understand what's going on.

I have a solution that seems to allow diacritic letters to be unharmed yet also be captured & recognized. I need to test it more, such as ensuring that keys such as Escape/Tab/F1-F12/Ctrl/Alt/Shift/Win are allowed in between the typing of the diacritic and the base/finishing key. In addition, keys such as Space and Enter seem to have a special function when used immediately after a dead key.

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10465

I think I have a working solution now, having tested it in both Spanish and Danish layouts. There might still be a few issues that only a native user of the language would notice, so additional feedback is welcome.

I've updated the installer at http://www.autohotkey.com/download/

Thanks for your help and patience with this issue.

jordi · Guest

Hi Chris
It looks like now it's fixed!
No more duplicate diacritics. Bear in mind that I only tested `´^¨ (they're all we have in Spanish layout, I don't know in other languages) and only with the script I was quoting some posts up.
Since I'm new to AutoHotKey, I can't really perform thorough testing of advanced features nor the *potential* impact or side effects on other functions (I'm in the learning stage)
Rest assured that I'll report anything related to this if I encounter any issues.
Excellent job!
regards
jordi

Guest · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:52 pm Post subject:

Yes, very good Chris.
You are on the right track.
The good news is, that it works all right with all the accents I have tested (é, è, ê, ä).
But I also have bad news: The tilde (~) is still not shown.
Does it matter that the tilde on my Danish keyboard is activated by pressing the AltGr-key together with the second key to the right of the "P" - whereas the accents have their own keys?
/Torben

jordi · Guest

/Torben, Chris
Quite weird what you say... although the Spanish layout has no key associated to the ~ (I always have to type ALT+126 to get it), there are other signs that are used in conjunction with AltGr and they all show up Ok:
For example: @ \ [ ] { } | # ¬ €
Do the rest of the characters used with AltGr work except for the ~ ?
jordi

jordi · Guest

Mmm
My girlfriend uses a German keyboard (well, she IS German Smile

, so I thought I would give it a try there...
The specific tilde ~ problem you mention does NOT occur in the German keyboard layout... The key is located exactly in the same place /Torben mentions (2 keys after the "P") and it's also used with AltGr.
The diacritics `and ´ also work ok (there is just one key for both and it is located differently than in Spanish: just on the left of backspace key)
In short, everything seems to work with German layout...
just my 2 cents...
jordi

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10465

Guest · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 6:55 am Post subject:

Yes, jordi is right. There are other signs that are used in conjunction with AltGr and in fact they all show up as expected. On my keyboard it is: @£${[]}}|\
By testing that I realised that when I press tilde followed by one of the other signs that are activated by AltGr then the tilde appears. For instance: ~@~£~$~{~[~]~}~\.
Maybe this will give you some idea as how to solve the problem, Chris.
/Torben

/Torben · Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Denmark

Well. The trick by pressing the tilde followed by another key that are activated by a combination of a key and AltGr works OK in Notepad and other programs I have tested, but not in Microsoft Word!
/Torben

/Torben · Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Denmark

I have tried every key on my keyboard together with AltGr and Shift. If fact I found 2 signs that I didn’t know I had: € (Euro=European currency) and µ (my – the Greek letter).

Fortunately I found no new errors.

I am very satisfied with AutoHotKey in its present state. I can live with the missing tilde. As jordi said one can always get the tilde by pressing Alt+126. The above note, about the missing tilde in Microsoft Word, was only meant as a feedback to your efforts, witch I really appreciate, Chris. Thank you once again.

Microsoft Word has other idiosyncrasies: for instance

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10465

/Torben · Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Denmark

No, hotstrings are not having a side-effect in this case. I discovered this before the version with hotstrings.
/Torben

/Torben · Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Denmark

Most - if not all - European keyboards are equipped with an AltGr-key. This also applies for the official keyboard layout in United Kingdom.
It’s correct: The AltGr-key works resembling a combination of Ctrl & Alt.
/Torben

jordis · Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 78

Hi Chris
I think in version .17 this problem is coming back... probably not the same, but related.
It looks like the Send command is ignoring characters with diacritics...
For example, going back to the sample script posted in the beginning: