Thank you again, Mathieu!
I'll give it a try. I was testing on Windows so far but I actually need it on Linux. So it looks like a good idea to figure it out on the OS I'll need it to use on since it seems to be different on every platform.
Ingo
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mathieu Bouchard [mailto:matju@artengine.ca] Gesendet: Samstag, 17. April 2010 19:03 An: Ingo Scherzinger Cc: pd-list@iem.at Betreff: Re: AW: [PD] how to type more than one "space" in GEM with
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On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Ingo Scherzinger wrote:
I tried to input them with [ALT+CTL+space] but pd doesn't accept that. What's a proper method of typing "non-breaking spaces" inside of pd or typing them into a standard textfile so pd can read them?
There are several ways. This is OS-dependent and charset-dependent. I found Pd 0.41 to be typing in iso-latin-1 in Tk on OSX, but using utf-8 on Linux, while on OSX, utf-8 chars of Pd files are still correctly read, or something like that.
loading GridFlow fixes half of the problem of typing characters on Linux (really), but for a full fix, you'd need to apply a fix that has been published some months ago and that is being left out of Pd. I don't know why this problem is specific to Linux, and if instead it has to do with the version of Tk, it could be a cross-platform problem eventually...
Back to Unicode now... If I send a «194 160» list-message to [#to_symbol], i get an invisible symbol, that you can add to a message-box using a «add2 $1» message-box. But there are other ways. I think I loaded the pd file in a text editor or hex editor... or that I found the key for it... but the key is OS-dependent, and then, it's also keyboard-layout dependent.
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