My suggestion worked. Sending this to the list for
future reference and archival purposes.
Dom
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thanx * 1 000 000 !
changing "input methods" to X solved everything!!!
just can't believe this was so simple!
you wouldn't believe how much unicode documentation and stuff like that
i have listed!
you're my hero! :)
Dom Lachowicz wrote:
Hi Gatis,
I've just installed AW 1.1.4 (still best WYSIWYG
editor i know) on
RedHat8 (GNOME) and spent two evenings trying to
make the 'dead-keys'
work correctly (without much success). Looks like
the reason is some
encoding stuff as my .abw files headers starts with
<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?> (encoding is 'default' according
to statusbar).
The word 'default' in the statusbar refers to your
keybindings. AbiWord supports 'default' MSWord-style
keybindings, 'vi' style, and 'emacs' style. The
encoding of your files (UTF8) has absolutely nothing
to do with your ability (or in this case, inability)
to type text.
Below is the snippet that i found in the danish
deadkey how-to ...
AbiWord uses the GTK2 input-method specification to
accept text, and I have personally seen it accept
ISO-8859-1 text, Cyrillic text, CJK text, Arabic text,
Hebrew text, and Yiddish text. If AbiWord isn't
accepting your input, it's quite likely that the
problem lies in GTK2, or in how GTK2 is talking to
your X input method.
You may wish to right-click in the document window, go
to "Input Methods" and select "X Input Method" from
the list. This *might* work for you.
(There is a way to 'hack' 1.0.X versions by changing
(re-making) abiword
default fonts with MS true type fonts - but seams
that it can not be
used with 1.1.X? as common gnome (X11) fonts are
used now ! Although i
doubt if the fonts are problem as driver (key-map
file actually) wich
uses much more simple logic (right-alt key (and is
moch more
inconvenient)) works ok)...or maybe there are source
files that can be
modified to set iso8859-13 as default?
AbiWord 1.1.4 uses FontConfig for font discovery. If
your fonts are in "standard" places that FontConfig
knows about, we should be able to load and use them
effortlessly.
Dom
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