Spanish Keyboard in Manjaro : can't enter special/accented characters

[Soli Deo Gloria]

The title says it all : I just can't type (for example in tracks' names) accented or special characters in Manjaro -instead, a square appears-. Not a deal breaker, obviously, but for the sake of ortography, I'd like to know if this is a bug, or anything related to REAPER/OS settings.


Any insight will be appreciated...


Thanks in advance.

[elcalen]

Does this happen particularly when typing the character requires a sequence of multiple keystrokes? If so, it sounds like the same issue I've had on a Finnish keyboard layout for a long time, and I've definitely written about it before (though it doesn't seem to have caught the devs' attention)...

I can't, for example, enter a tilde, because on my layout that requires hitting the tilde key twice. Since the tilde is very commonly used in programming, that's pretty annoying when writing scripts.

[Mcgiver69]

Originally Posted by Soli Deo Gloria

The title says it all : I just can't type (for example in tracks' names) accented or special characters in Manjaro -instead, a square appears-. Not a deal breaker, obviously, but for the sake of ortography, I'd like to know if this is a bug, or anything related to REAPER/OS settings.


Any insight will be appreciated...


Thanks in advance.

If this is only happening within Reaper then I would advise installing Spanish in Reaper.

[Soli Deo Gloria]

Originally Posted by elcalen

Does this happen particularly when typing the character requires a sequence of multiple keystrokes? If so, it sounds like the same issue I've had on a Finnish keyboard layout for a long time, and I've definitely written about it before (though it doesn't seem to have caught the devs' attention)...

I can't, for example, enter a tilde, because on my layout that requires hitting the tilde key twice. Since the tilde is very commonly used in programming, that's pretty annoying when writing scripts.

Thanks for the replies, people. In this case, it certainly involves pressing too keys in sequence (for example, the tilde key and the letter which will be accented). It certainly is a Linux-only issue, but taking into account your comment, it probably is one of those things that you have to deal with... At least, I know that it's not only my setup alone...

Originally Posted by Mcgiver69

If this is only happening within Reaper then I would advise installing Spanish in Reaper.

Thanks for the advice... Anyway, the same happens after installing the spanish translation. It must be a deeper issue, although I imagine it's a quick fix, potentially...

[krahosk]

Same problem with Reaper in French here. No accents possible; I get squares whenever there's an accented character. Not a Manjaro or Arch Linux issue but REAPER-specific. I'm using Endaevour OS.
Perhaps installing the "localisation" patch available for REAPER?

[Soli Deo Gloria]

I see... You mean, setting the LC_NUMERIC thing to English? I already did that; but I don't know if there's something else to be done...

[heda]

it affects all text fields in REAPER.
the only way I know is to write it outside REAPER and copy paste...

[krahosk]

❑a n'a pas march❑, h❑nn❑tement.

[Soli Deo Gloria]

Originally Posted by heda

it affects all text fields in REAPER.
the only way I know is to write it outside REAPER and copy paste...

You're right, Heda... Or, to catch the devs' attention, which might or might not happen. Would it be useful to open an issue in the Bug Reports section?

Originally Posted by krahosk

❑a n'a pas march❑, h❑nn❑tement.

This is exactly what happens!

[Justin]

Yeah, the multi-key keys aren't supported right yet, I'll keep digging at fixing this.

Edit: I think we can add support for the most common dead key combinations, hopefully soonish.

[Soli Deo Gloria]

Oh, thanks soooo much for the reply, Justin!

[Justin]

If you want to build your own libSwell, you can try this branch which might help:

https://github.com/justinfrankel/WDL/tree/swell_gdk_kb

(will be in the 6.73+dev builds in a week or so)

[Soli Deo Gloria]

Thanks again, Justin! I confess that building things in Linux is not something I do very often. Hence, I should have to look into it, and probably, right at this moment, it's more practical for me to wait that week or so until the pre includes it... Anyway, thanks for all as usual, and it's nice to know that we'll have the feature available soon.

[Justin]

Today's +dev build should improve this, I hope! It doesn't preview the composed keys, but hitting the sequences should produce the correct output. I'll start thinking about previews soon.

[Soli Deo Gloria]

Thank you very, very much, Justin! All the main combinations work - specially the accent, which was probably the most uncomfortable one when it was lacking -. I've found at least one combination that doesn't work (the Ctrl Alt key coupled with the ' and ç keys which should oputput the { } brackets in a spanish keyboard), but I personally don't care about it. It doesn't show a square when you use that combination, though.


Hats off to you, sir, as usual!

[krahosk]

Thank you Justin! The diaeresis (or tréma in French) is now fully featured in the word NOËL! Joyeux Noël to all.

[heda]

it works! Thank you Justin
as @Soli Deo Gloria mentions ALtGR+ç should output the } bracket but it doesn't work. Or AltGR+' = { either.
But other combinations of ALTGR work. For example ALTGR+2 outputs the @ or ALTGR + ` = [ etc. Those work

[Justin]

Originally Posted by heda

it works! Thank you Justin
as @Soli Deo Gloria mentions ALtGR+ç should output the } bracket but it doesn't work. Or AltGR+' = { either.
But other combinations of ALTGR work. For example ALTGR+2 outputs the @ or ALTGR + ` = [ etc. Those work

I assume this is in the track name field? They don't work on a US keyboard either! Oops, fixing

How about in project settings, do they work in those edit fields?

[heda]

Originally Posted by Justin

How about in project settings, do they work in those edit fields?

yes it was in the track name field
and yes it works in the project settings dialog!

[Soli Deo Gloria]

Exactly!


The Alt Gr combination I mentioned above doesn´t work in the track name field, but it certaily does in the Project Settings fields and the Preferences dialog. It doesn't work in the FX search window, neither.

[Soli Deo Gloria]

Fixed in 6.73 Rc1!


Thanks so much, Justin!