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Offline Quintus

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Problem with special characters.
« on: February 03, 2021, 07:07:07 am »
I previously had QB64 installed on a win7 machine, and it worked fine, except that the character a with two dots above instead came out on the screen  as a greek sigma. This coud however easily be remedied by holding altgr (if I remember correctly), and entering the ascii-code of the wanted character. Having now anew downloaded QB64 to use on a windows 10 machine, I find that the altgr-fix for typing special characters isn't working anymore? Or do I not remember correctly how special characters can be typed in, is it not altgr that is to be pressed down while entering the ascii code?

I also find that if you try to save a file in a path that contains an a with two dots above, (using the save as... dialogue box), an error results and the path cannot be found, because the a with two dots is replaced by sigma, just like in the editor window.
How can I solve these problems?

On my keyboard, caret (^) is normally written by pressing shift+(^¨~), and then a space. But this doesn't work, and caret is only appearing if you keep shift+(^¨~) pressed down, and dozens of them come out at once.

FellippeHeitor

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Re: Problem with special characters.
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2021, 07:16:11 am »
My primary language is Portuguese and when I wanna write code in the IDE I change the system keyboard language to English temporarily so that these characters can be entered.
When you add another keyboard layout/language, you will get a button in your taskbar, near the clock, to switch between both on the fly.
Please see if that works for you too.

« Last Edit: February 03, 2021, 07:53:06 am by FellippeHeitor »

Offline euklides

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Re: Problem with special characters.
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2021, 10:00:11 am »
Use alt+94 to get ^ :)
Why not yes ?