Difficulty using non-Ascii characters

• Sep 21, 2013 - 10:43

I can't tell if this is a bug/problem, or something I have somehow missed. I cannot seem to get (most) non-ASCII characters into either lyrics or other places. (I'm using Ubuntu and the Ibus 'input editor' thingy)

If I click on Create - Text - Tempo, I get a list of (standard) indications, but can also type in my own. However, Japanese input does not work. (But oddly, Russian input works fine.) Worse, it seems I cannot paste in from the clipboard, so the standard workaround is no good.

I'm also trying to add accented letters to lyrics and failing in the same way. I don't use extended Roman characters much (where I can't just write the HTML codes), so I don't have a W European input option, and again normally rely on pasting.

(1) Is there something I have missed?

(2) Is there a principled reason for not allowing paste?

(3) Is there a reason Japanese input doesn't work?

Thanks for any help...
Brian Chandler

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• Sep 24, 2013 - 21:31

Input method:

I'm pretty sure Qt and ibus do not work well together; as far as I remember xim is the only input stuff guaranteed to work with Qt under Linux. Perhaps someone else may provide more details. I think this explain why you cannot enter characters not in your keyboard with ibus.

Pasting:

As far as I can see, pasting to any text box is possible. When pasting to lyrics, text is pasted from the clipboard one word at a time and each word is then removed from the clipboard. Then a single word (or a single character) cannot be pasted to lyrics more than once.

I hope these details, although clearly preliminary, might provide some hints for additional experiments.

M.

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