[QScintilla] Mac OS X: brackets and other special characters

[Phil Thompson]

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 4:40 pm, Andrea Battisti wrote:
> >> I'm using a slightly old version of QScintilla ( 1.7.1 snapshot 20061029
> >> ) on Mac OS X (10.4.9).
> >> I looked at the changelog of the latest versions but I did not find
> >> reference to fixes to this issue.
> >>
> >> I found a problem in the handling of special characters on the Mac
> >> version of QScintilla: I'm not able to type brackets (neither square nor
> >> curly) not even symbols like #@ normally accessed with the "alt" key on
> >> Macs.
> >>
> >> Do you have any suggestions? Should I report the problem directly to
> >> Scintilla?
> >> I'm not sure if this is the correct place where to ask for support (we
> >> bought a commercial license for QScintilla).
> >> Any help is very appreciated.
> >
> > Please try a released version - that snapshot is very old. Support for
> > accented characters was added recently.
>
> Ok, but brackets do not work (they are fine on Linux and Windows also on
> that shapshot...).
>
> Anyway I tried right now with the 1.73-gpl-2.1 version but it does not
> works against our code; did the API change since
>
> 1.7.1 snapshot 20061029 ?

Certainly.

> What is the version to use to minimizes manual editing and obtain the
> support for brackets on MACs?

You will need to use the latest release - we don't provide old snapshots. If 
any fixes are needed then they will only be applied to the latest release.

Phil