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Bug 70818 - Access keys Alt+x do not work for non-latin languages (ISO-8859-7)
Access keys Alt+x do not work for non-latin languages (ISO-8859-7)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: Other
1.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
: 70820 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-02-07 14:46 UTC by Simos Xenitellis
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Simos Xenitellis 2002-02-07 14:46:10 UTC 
Reference:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2002-January/msg00169.html

Suppose you are running gedit and you want to open the "_File" menu.
For the POSIX locale, you would press "Alt+F" and the menu opens up.
However, if the "_File" string is translated and you have another
keyboard 
active, the menu does not open.
That is, when pressing Alt-x, where x=non-latin character and "x" is 
a proper valid access key character, the menu does not open.

It appears that only latin character sets are recognised.
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2002-02-07 15:34:32 UTC 
This isn't really fixable in the context of GTK+-1.2.x. (There
is no good way to convert from keysym to and from characters.)

In 1.3.x, it should work fine currently, except that to get it really
right, it should be able to ignore keyboard group. (bug 50300)
That is, if the keyboard is in roman mode, it shouldn't be necessary
to switch it back to greek mode to open the file menu.
Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2002-02-07 15:41:47 UTC 
*** Bug 70820 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***