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Subject:    Re: [Quanta] Quanta suddenly stopped accenting vowels
From:       "bhilton" <bhilton () hilfamco ! com>
Date:       2008-07-28 18:32:30
Message-ID: 200807281332.30569.bhilton () hilfamco ! com
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Eric
Sorry to reply to a post to your email, but I am not sure if my idea is 
correct. If you think it is I will post.
I use KDE and suse (yeah yeah traitor and all that)
When you use a font it connects to the international characters you have 
installed because not all fonts have those characters, so if you change fonts 
sometimes you have to connect another font with Int characters.
In openoffice for example you have western text fonts and  CTL fonts
Not all of these have the same languages available, for instance hebrew or 
hindi , because of there special letter set. You are correct  this is handled 
in the setup and which packs you have installed. If you use a foreign 
keyboard there is a mapping driver that must be installed as well (depending 
on the language, many are in KDE)
Hope this seems correct to you, I only send emails in Italian and I dont worry 
about accents, they get what I mean , and after all I am in the US.
Apparently you are the only person who replies to emails (good  thing for 
users) but a pain for you I'm sure. I have a startup POS system  and I get 
every email possible, like why doesn't my weather monitor work? We are an  
all serverside app so it makes it even more hilarious!!!
Peace
Bryan HIlton
DineRite DRX
Pres IT & Development

On Monday 28 July 2008 12:50:07 Eric Laffoon wrote:
> On Monday 28 July 2008 7:07:37 am Marcelo Todaro wrote:
> > Dear folks,
> >
> > I don't know if this topic has already been addressed. I have googled a
> > lot before deciding to post here, so please be patient with me.
> >
> > I'm Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) 64 bits and Quanta 3.5.9 user.
> >
> > My native language uses many vowels with accents (like á, õ, etc.). In
> > Font Editor mode Quanta used to accentuate them normally, but this
> > morning it started refusing to do so for some odd reason.
> >
> > For example, to make "á" I type ' then a. But now it is separating the
> > characters instead of giving me an accented vowel as it did before.
> >
> > I haven't changed anything on the settings nor I could be able to find
> > any setting related to the problem.
> >
> > And, as you can see, other applications haven't been affected, so it's
> > not a system setting issue.
>
> Really? Bzzzzt! Wrong!
>
> > Would anyone be so kind as to give me a hand on this please?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Marcelo
>
> Have you done any system maintanence recently? What have you changed?
> Here's the entire problem from my perspective... First off I have been a
> native English speaker all my life, so this type of question is not my
> field of experience as a user. Andras usually fields these questions but
> he's busy. Second, it most likely IS a system setting issue!
>
> The only way you can say this is Quanta and not something else is if you
> are comparing KDE applications. Ubuntu runs Gnome and if those applications
> are working it only means you don't have broken Gnome configuration files.
>
> Quanta is built on KDE which is the most heavily object oriented reuse
> desktop software anywhere. So the following are the relevant places to
> look. 1) Check to be sure your docs have the correct code page in your HTML
> header files.
> 2) The editor is the Kate part. When it has focus and you are typing it is
> processing key strokes.
> 3) KDE allows you to set internationalization languages in Kcontrol. This
> would also affect the language your menus appear in.
> 4) X has your actual keyboard mappings and configuration.
>
> As a rule configuration settings don't generally just go away. Software
> isn't magic. There is a cause...
> * system updates
> * new software install mucking up settings
> * disk error
>
> As two people have posted with this problem I'd certainly like to find an
> answer. I'm personally running Gentoo and KDE desktop and I'm not
> installing Ubuntu to troubleshoot it. While I'd like to offer a solution
> here, and someone may do that, you may want to also check with Ubuntu
> forums. The probability this is caused by something other than Quanta is
> approaching certainty, so it may be a good idea.
>
> Also can you confirm a difference in behavior with ANY other KDE
> application? If you test Kate and it works then the problem would have to
> be Quanta and I'd need to know that. Kate should have the same problem in
> theory. A good KDE general test application would be Kwrite.
>
> If we can have more diagnostic information we can at least tell you where
> to look if it is not Quanta, and if somehow it is Quanta we need to know.


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