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Re: Ŭŭ letter

From
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Oct 31, 2012, 15:39 UTC
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<50914640.1060509@drmicha.warpmail.net>
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Usievaład Čorny venit, vidit, dixit 31.10.2012 16:27:
> No, commit is the same as input. Only when I press key combination for
> Ŭŭ (AltGr+Uu [like AltGr+Cc for Ćć, this works]) — simple Uu appears
> in text form. Every other special letter (Šš, Čč, Žž, Śś, Łł, Źź, Ćć)
> works.

So it's really the input. Is AltGr+u maybe a menu shortcut in git gui which overrides the special character? I think Ctril+u and such are command shortcuts, and AltGr+u and such activate menus.

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> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>> Usievaład Čorny venit, vidit, dixit 31.10.2012 16:08:
>>> Ok. I use Win7 sp1, syslang — be_BY, git version 1.8.0.msysgit.0 („git
>>> version“ command).
>>> Problem appears when I type this letter on keyboard; when I copy-paste
>>> it everyrhing is ok.
>>
>> That is interesting. It means git-gui can make the commit properly, but
>> somehow the input method fails in the commit message form of the gui
>> window. Do those letters show correctly in the form (but fail to commit
>> correctly), or do they appear incorrectly already at the time you try to
>> type them?
>>
>> That info could help windows folks find the cause.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Michael J Gruber
>>> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>>>> Usievaład Čorny venit, vidit, dixit 31.10.2012 15:39:
>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>
>>>>> When I type comment message in Git Gui (1.8.0 and previous), I can't
>>>>> use Ŭŭ letter (U+016C, U+016D) — it just transforms into simple Uu.
>>>>> Please fix it.
>>>>
>>>> Can you tell us more about your environment (LANG setting, OS)? I just
>>>> made two commits (1 with git-gui, one with git-commit on command line),
>>>> and both come out fine (LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, git version 1.8.0.226.gba44ac5
>>>> on Fedora 16):
>>>>
>>>> git log -2 -p
>>>> commit 36de49231639eb9edccb1ebad595056d395141c7
>>>> Author: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
>>>> Date:   Wed Oct 31 15:54:04 2012 +0100
>>>>
>>>>     äöüßŬŭ
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/a b/a
>>>> index 1074042..677c385 100644
>>>> --- a/a
>>>> +++ b/a
>>>> @@ -1 +1,2 @@
>>>>  äöüßŬŭ
>>>> +äöüßŬŭ
>>>>
>>>> commit cfcf8f021a53c1bf5ae018a723fbcfad8649a02b
>>>> Author: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
>>>> Date:   Wed Oct 31 15:52:52 2012 +0100
>>>>
>>>>     äöüßŬŭ
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/a b/a
>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>> index 0000000..1074042
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/a
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>>>> +äöüßŬŭ
>>>
>>>
>>>
> 
> 
> 
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