On 2016-07-26 13:01, Christof Ressi wrote:
which characters are 'forbidden' in Pd message boxes? E.g. I'm unable to type a backslash or curly braces. I get the following error message:
'keycode #N dropped' (where #N is the ASCII code).
yes this is expected behaviour, on all operating systems. among other things, this prevents w32 users from using backslash as directory delimiter¹.
the list of forbidden characters is exactly this: , {, }
fgmasdr IOhannes
¹ though of course this is not the real reason why these keys are forbidden.