Typing in International/Special chars not working

[curyous]

When tweaking the merged file in the centre. I am not getting the correct characters showing when I try to type in international or special characters using Alt Gr. I have set the font to one which contains the all the right characters. I use the same font and keyboard settings in Notepad and get the expected characters appearing. In DiffMerge, I either get the wrong character or no character at all, for 90% of the special characters I want to enter.

It seems to diff and merge using these characters OK, but how do I get editing with them to work?


Thanks,
Brendon

PS. It's a great product, I'm a fan.

[jeffhostetler]

I just tried this on XP.

I didn't have any problems entering accented chars when I
had the keyboard set to a German layout rather than an EN US
layout.

But I did have problems when I had the keyboard set to US-International.
It just beeped at me when I typed the Alt+Gr. But I found that if you go
to the Control Panel, Regional and Language Options, the "Languages" tab
and click on "Details" under "Text services and input languages" section.
And then go to the "Advanced" tab on the "Text services and input languages"
dialog. Enable "Extend support of advanced text services to all programs."
(and probably reboot). The Alt+Gr stuff works just fine.

Or at least it did for me.

Let me know if you have any other problems or questions.

jeff

[curyous]

Thanks Jeff, I'm on XP too, but this didn't quite work for me.

I'm using the keyboard set to an English (United States) based variant, and I set the extra setting that you mentioned ("Extend support of advanced text services to all programs." and rebooted).

I'm dealing with APL characters, found within U+2300 - U+23FF, they are visible in the "Arial Unicode MS" font that comes with MS Office. Everything works OK as long as I don't have to manually edit the merged file. This is probably not going to be easy to reproduce unless you have the keyboard service installed to be able to enter those characters (I use a normal keyboard).

I'm not sure where to go from here.

[jeffhostetler]

If you could give me a little more information on the keyboard service
(a name/vendor/link/etc) so that I could try to install it on a test machine
and see what's happening, maybe I could figure out what's going on.

If that doesn't work, you might be stuck with keeping notepad or something
open in another window and cutting/pasting in the text or something.

jeff