Re: Using shortcuts with internationalised keyboards

[simos pc96 ma rhbnc ac uk]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Stanislav Brabec wrote:

> I have similar problem in gimp (compiled with gtk-1.2 series,
> glibc-2.1.3) with czech keyboard. I will press "&mgr;", but "ecaron" appears
> in menu. But shortcut works.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:21:52PM +0000, simos@pc96.ma.rhbnc.ac.uk wrote:
> > 
> > Dear All,
> > 	When I tried to add shortcuts(accelerators?) with Greek characters
> > to the File/New menu, I found that the english equivelants of the keys
> > were printed. I could not make it to add a shortcut with Greek letters.
> > 
> > 	Is this a problem with the Ctrl-letter or Alt-letter combinations?
> > 
> > 	Could someone verify if this is indeed the case?
> > 
> > I am using XKB to write in greek.

	As Stanislav notes, the problem is with the key that is shown in the
menu.
	It appears that the english equivalent of the key pressed is shown
in the menu item, however, if someone tries the shortcut while writing
in the local language, the shortcut works perfectly.

	Is there a reason that the english letter appears in the menu?
	Is it some sort of bug or it has to be like this due to some
requirement?

(tested with the latest version of GNOME, as distributed by HelixCode)

Thanks,
Simos Xenitellis