Re: [bug-gtypist] Backspace 0407 interferes with 'c with acute' U+0107

[Felix Natter]

Kalthor <address@hidden> writes:

>   Hello,

hello Kalthor,

> I noticed that it is not possible to input one of the Polish diacritic
> letters 'c with acute' (unicode 0x107 = 263) because it interferes
> with KEY_BACKSPACE defined in ncurses.h (0407 = 263)

Thanks for reporting and analyzing this!

> I removed rc == KEY_BACKSPACE from the condition in lines 700 and 991
> which seems to help on my platform: ubuntu 12.04, gtypist 2.9.1

This will not work, at least not for speedtests (where BACKSPACEs are
honored). However, you may want to use this as a workaround if you don't
use speedtests.
For normal drills, BACKSPACEs are just ignored, so with your change, you
will get errors when you type backspaces.

Simply using 0x8 does not work with ncurses(w). I've read the ncursesw
man-pages, but couldn't find a solution for this, so I've posted on
ncurses-bugs:
  http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.ncurses.bugs

Best Regards and thanks again,
-- 
Felix Natter