Re: [NTLK] weird HWR problem

From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Fri Mar 12 2004 - 09:43:44 PST


On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 02:18:14PM -0300, Marcus Andree S. Magalhaes wrote:
> <snip>
> > Some characters just aren't doable with HWR. "\" for example. The popup
> > keyboard is useful in those circumstances.
> >
> <snip>
>
> Well, but it's really strange to have an -otherwise- common letter
> behaving as a "\" in the sense that it's not recognized properly or
> even present in the standard layout keybord when you tap the
> Option key... I had to use a different keyboard layout.

but it IS in the standard layout! It just takes two keystrokes... opt-`
then shift-e makes "È".

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