Re: How to type accents?

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 08:26, asierra linux unam mx wrote:
> Hello:
>
> In the old versions of dia one was able to type accents with an
> international keyboard. Dia currently supports utf8 and latin1
> (iso-8859-1) so I can edit the dia file and introduce the accent but I
> cant with the Text object. I am using a recent CVS version and I know it
> is not the first time this problem is reported.
>
> Is this problem going to be fixed soon? As a former developer of dia, I am
> not asking that someone else fix my problem but I just want to know if
> this is being considered to be fixed some day and, if not, where should I
> look in the code.

You probably want app/disp_callbacks.c, but it's rather complex.  If you
feel like making a proper solution to this and a number of related
problems, see my notes on
http://faemalia.org/wiki/view/Technical/TextEditing.

> I am no more suscribed to this list.

We'd prefer if you were when you ask questions, that makes communication
a lot easier.

-Lars