Set default keyboard layout (for other language) for a field

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Jonathan,

We did this for a client. We have a working Mac solution. Currently, the Windows solution works only in theory but I'd be happy to investigate further. Contact me off-list of you're interested.

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On 19 feb 2013, at 02:39, Jonathan Cooper wrote:

> I've just created a stack with fields that will contain text in Esperanto.
> I have a keyboard layout ("Esperanto-sc") installed on my Mac that allows
> me to type special accented Esperanto characters (eg, "ĉ", "ŭ"). If I click
> in a field and *then* change the keyboard layout from (the default)
> "Australian" to "Esperanto-sc", I'm able to type Esperanto characters OK,
> but as soon as I exit the field, the keyboard layout switches back to
> "Australian". Is there any way to stop this happening? Or, failing that, to
> have Livecode automatically set the keyboard layout as soon as the field is
> opened?
> 
> I've searched the archives and all I can find are some old messages (2003)
> about storing a coded version of a field's UniCode content in a hidden
> field, but that seems unnecessarily complex (and doesn't solve the problem
> of how to enter the text in the first place).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> Jonathan Cooper
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