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

[Andrea Battisti]

>>> 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.
>>>
>>>     
>
> [...]
>
>> Please try a released version - that snapshot is very old. Support 
>> for accented characters was added recently.
>>
>>   
> I tried with the Mac/Linux version 1.71-gpl-1.7.1, listed here: 
> http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/qscintilla/download.php
> The other version for Mac available (1.73-gpl-2.1) has a different API.
>
> The problem with the special characters (i.e. cannot type @ # [ ] { } 
> ... ) affects also that version, 1.71-gpl-1.7.1.
> Is this a problem related to QScintilla or scintilla?
>
> Any hints on how to report/solve this issue?
> Before thinking to move to the new API, I want to be sure that the 
> move will solve this problem on Mac OS X (the same problem doesn't 
> exist on Linux and Windows, also on older versions of QScintilla).
Update:

I compiled the Qt3 example using qscintilla2 and it seems to support 
characters like: @ # [ ] { }
That is nice; anyway I'm still unable to type accented characters like: 
à è é ì ò ù.


Thanks,

-- 
Andrea Battisti - ACT Corp.