[Lazarus] Lazarus eats comment characters using Swedish keyboard

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Sun Oct 11 09:50:22 CEST 2015


Bo Berglund wrote:
> A problem surfaced just a moment ago...
> I was writing code in Lazarus ver 1.5 running on a Raspberry Pi2 with
> Raspbian Jessie.
> I wanted to comment out a number of lines so I hit the key combination
> to produce the { } pair. But nothing was printed in the Lazarus
> editor.
> If I switched to the text editor in the GUI the keys produced the
> wanted characters.
> 
> So something in Lazarus eats the key presses needed in Sweden to
> produce the braces (RightAlt-7 and RightAlt-0).
> Is there a configuration somewhere to stop this from happening so one
> can enter comments in Lazarus?

Is it only those, or are any of the other keys that require <Alt> affected?

This sounds unfortunate since some things only with with { } comment 
markers rather than (* *).

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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