[GNC] Importing Accounts with non-English Characters

[John Ralls]

Resent to the list because of a server bounce. Sorry for the dupe, Adrien.

There's a checkbox in System Preferences>Keyboard>Input Sources to show input menu in the menu bar. Turn that on: It includes two items, Show Emoji & Symbols, that actually gives access to all code points, and Show Keyboard Viewer, which shows what keys do what; it's interactive so if you hold down option it shows what characters it makes available.

With the US English keyboard there are some combining keys, circled in orange: `, e, u, i, and n for accent aigue, accent grave, dieresis, circumflex, and cedilla respectively.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Mar 17, 2021, at 8:26 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> Not sure if this is related with the overload, but I noticed that when triggering the accented character selector/pop-up in MacOS, I can't type the number for the character I want like in other apps. I still can use the arrow keys though. Otherwise, I can get most characters by remembering the specific Option sequence, but all of mine are simple two-key presses so I've yet to know if more complicated combos are an issue.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> On 3/16/21 11:21 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> 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.
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