keys on keyboard return different characters

jonathandlynch at gmail.com jonathandlynch at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 09:07:01 EDT 2017


If you get chartonum for these characters, are they also different?

Sent from my iPhone

> On Aug 21, 2017, at 9:01 AM, jonathandlynch at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Pressing the key harder makes a difference? How could that not be a hardware thing? 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Aug 21, 2017, at 7:39 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, have you ever experienced the following phenomenon?
>> 
>> A customer of me tells me that pressing a Umlaut key (äüö) on a German
>> keyboard sometimes shows the correct Umlaut in my LiveCode program, but
>> sometimes only hieroglyphs. Sometimes the correct char shows up after having
>> hit multiple times / or harder the same key. I am using the old standard
>> font Tahoma on stack level, inherited to all fields, which obviously is
>> installed on the machine, otherwise the correct chars never would appear.
>> Since this phenomenon only happens in my LiveCode (8.1.4) program, not in
>> Word or any other program, it must be related to LiveCode. But how and what?
>> Keyboard driver or foreign system font or language would affect all programs
>> on this machine.
>> 
>> Ever experienced anything similar?
>> 
>> Tiemo
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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