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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Hello Kemal,

I fixed the problem for the Qt version on the SVN server.

Best wishes, --Joris


On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 06:15:31AM -0800, Kemal Ilgar Eroglu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I have already filed this as a bug report (#34257) a while ago, but no one 
> seems to notice, so I will try my luck here.
> 
> I am using TeXmacs 1.0.7.14 on Slackware Linux 13.37 32-bit but this bug 
> was there in all the versions I have used till now, and showed itself under 
> both the Qt and old interfaces (I tested it on a couple of other 
> distributions, too, with the same result).
> 
> 
> The problem is that I can't type the "lowercase dotless i" in the editor. 
> This is a character that exists in the Turkish alphabet. It is the unicode 
> character 131 and has LaTeX code '\i'. As you will appreciate, being unable 
> to type this in makes TeXmacs unusable for Turkish texts, which is a great 
> frustration for me.
> 
> As far as I can observe, all other keyboard characters work without any 
> problem. Those who wish to try this out themselves can switch to the 
> standard variant of the Turkish layout with
> 
> setxkbmap -layout tr 
> 
> 
> and then the English 'lowercase i' key should produce a lowercase dotless i.
> 
> This character can be loaded into TeXmacs from LaTeX documents containing 
> \i. In the LaTeX code you have to leave a space after '\i' (to terminate 
> the command, obviously). For example the text-mode LaTeX code
> 
> k\i sa
> 
> should display "kısa", but TeXmacs displays it as "kı sa", not deleting the 
> obligatory space and this is another bug.
> 
> But my first priority is of course to get the keyboard input working. I 
> would *really* appreciate it very much if someone helped me with this.
> 
> Best,
> Ilgar