Looks like option is getting used as part of shortcuts, intercepting its use for extending the keyboard. Option-u-u opens that weird entry box and option-o operates the OK key. Option-e still works to create an accent-grave so it's just modifier key overloads. In the transfer dialog option-u-u makes a ü as it should, but option-o still operates the OK button.
Regards, John Ralls > On Mar 16, 2021, at 7:39 PM, w...@theprescotts.com wrote: > > On MacOS, you can access all those special characters from the Keyboard menu. > One of the tabs in the Keyboard System Preference has an option to 'Show > Input menu in the menu bar'. Then from any app you can open up an 'Emoji and > Symbol Viewer' that will allow you to insert any symbol or character anywhere. > > Will > > On 2021 Mar 16, at 03-16 19:02:36, prl <p...@ozemail.com.au> wrote: > > On 17/3/21 11:47, prl wrote: >> On 17/3/21 05:20, viking wrote: >>> Liz wrote >>>> On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 03:31:34 -0500 (CDT) >>>> viking < >>>> viking2ev@.rr >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> Quite an old bug from 2017. Is there a workaround to be able to import >>>>> accounts with non-English characters? >>>>> >>>>> I am also not able to /manually/ create a new account including >>>>> non-English characters. For example, the letter "å" can be typed here >>>>> by pressing "Alt-0229". However, it doesn't work when trying to type >>>>> this letter in the Account name for a New Account. >>>>> Is this another bug? >>>> Can you copy and paste the correct characters into place? >>>> >>>> Liz >>> @Liz, >>> Yes. copy/paste works but not typing the character directly. I guess this is >>> a bug. >> I can't enter non-ACSII characters in the Account name in Gnucash 4.4/MacOS >> 11.2.3 either (viking is having the issue on Windows GC 4.4). Normally on >> the Mac, OPTION-"u", "u" should enter ü (u-umlaut), but when I type the "u" >> after the OPTION-"u", a small text entry popup is displayed that covers the >> New Account popup's Help button, and a single "u" (without umlaut) appears >> in the text entry popup. >> >> After that text entry popup appears, all text entry goes into that popup. >> The Cancel button on the New Account popup still works to get out of it. >> >> Maybe GTK is grabbing the keyboard codes before the normal keyboard text >> entry processing is done on them. >> >> Peter >> > Curiouser and curioser. If in MacOS GC 4.4, I type OPTION-"u", "u" into the > little text entry popup that appears after I first enter OPTION-"u", "u", > that does enter ü (u-umlaut) into the popup text box. However, there's > something that causes the popup text box to time out, and there's no way I > could find to get the text out of the popup text box and into the AccountName > box, not even using copy-paste before the timeout. > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
