Slash '/' does not work on German and Swiss-German keyboards #954
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Author: Richard Ah - this is a documentation bug, sorry. If you press the key which would be '/' on a British keyboard (I think it's '-') then it should work. I'll fix the documentation. |
Author: remo.nospam[at]gmx.net The '-' is actually at the same position on the German and Swiss-German keyboard as the '/' is on the English keyboard. But pressing '-' does not select another way but it removes a point from the current way as the '-' on the English keyboard. So, it seems that 'select another way' acts on the position of the key and 'remove a point from the current way' act on the character value and 'remove a point from the current way' wins. |
Author: Richard Eek. Ok, this is all a bit weird. Both act on the the key code, not the character code: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/editors/potlatch/potlatch.as#L731 But it turns out that Flash behaves in an... interesting fashion with non-US/UK keyboards. (See http://oddhammer.com/index.php/site/comments/bug_input_language_issue_on_screen_keyboard/ , http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?7292 .) Could you use http://oddhammer.com/tutorials/german.html and tell me what values you get for '/' and '-'? Thanks! |
Author: remo.nospam[at]gmx.net On my Swiss-German keyboard on Vista I get: If I set the keyboard to German, I get the same. |
Author: Richard Should hopefully be fixed in 0.10 (awaiting deployment). |
Author: remo.nospam[at]gmx.net I have tried potlatch 0.10 today. With the German keyboard pressing '-' (where the '/' is on the UK keyboard) still deletes the point and pressing '/' (shift-7) does nothing. When I have set Windows to use the UK keymap, pressing '/' works as advertised. Remo |
Author: Richard That's completely mad - http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/editors/potlatch/potlatch.as#L641 clearly checks for the ASCII value of '/' now. I'll take a further look if I get a minute. |
Author: Circeus Have you considered supplementing th slash key with a alphanumeric one? It's not an actual bugfix, but at least it would allow everybody to use it without requiring too massive a reprogramming. |
Author: iandees Cleaning aging tickets. |
Reporter: remo.nospam[at]gmx.net
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 7.08am, Wednesday, 4th June 2008]
The slash to select another way does not work when I have set my keyboard to German or Swiss-German. It works as advertised when I set my keyboard to US. On the German and Swiss-German keyboard the slash is accessed with 'shift-7'. Is the fact that we have to use the shift key related to this bug?
My setup: Potlatch 0.9c on Flash WIN 9,0,124,0 on Firefox 2.0.0.14 on Windows 2000 SP4.
But I can see the same problem on my Vista laptop.
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