Re: Bug: some latin2 characters ignored

Quoting Laurent Carcone <laurent@w3.org>:
> >
> > maly.velky@email.cz, wrote
> >
> >   once again, some iso8859-2 cannot be typed in the main window of Amaya
> 9.2.1 under Win XP. It's a typical amaya bug.
> >   The problem is that some characters cannot be typed in text, though they
> can be typed e.g. in the url bar. As it happened with a couple of previous
> versions I guess it's still the same problem. The caracters in question are
> (both capital and normal) s,c,r,z,t and n With Caron, u  With Ring Above (see
> http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/latin1.html#latexta). But the characters
> can be copied and pasted from elsewhere.  I haven't tested 9.2.1 under Linux
> but 9.2 had not the problem. I hope you'll manage to get it right. Good luck!
> >   Regards,
> >        Jakub Holy
> >
> > Environment:
> > Amaya 9.2.1
> > Windows XP
> >
> 
> Hello,
> Actually, we have noticed some font problems with the version 9.2.1 on
> Windows
> XP.
> Somebody reported a rendering problem for Asian characters since the version
> 9.2 (the version 9.1 worked well).
> Your problem is appeared with the version 9.2.1 and it worked well with the
> 9.2, right ?
> 

I can report also problems with Amaya 9.2.1 MacOS 10.4.2,
of two types:

firstly a glyph rendering problem in that two byte glyphs will
not show on the page view, only a non-printing rect. box shows,
but the character entity is correctly entered in the source view.
This occurs if text is entered in Amaya, or pasted from another
text app. The Saved page renders correctly with Safari.
this happens for me with all CJK and hindic languages including Thai.

Arabic, Farsi, Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic operate correctly.
Pashto characters enter left to right on the Amaya page
but render right to left on Safari.

2ndly some "normal" Macintosh key entry sequences for accented
or foreign characters are trapped by Amaya as command sequences,
and I haven't yet found a friendly workaround. (Copy-Paste !=friendly ;-)
This applies to the majority of ISO-8859 family. eg. the common 
West European accented vowels, acute, grave, circumflex, dieresis, 
are created by Alt-[accent-key], followed by vowel.
Amaya traps any Alt-combination as a command...

Disclaimer: I have a smattering of French & Spanish but know
little of the other languages. As a support person I often have to
configure fonts and keyboards for my polyglot colleagues.
I had not used Amaya for non-English pages in previous versions.

Peter Kerr
School of Music, University of Auckland




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