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Using Unicode keyboard in Qcad

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:36 am
by mmasroorali
Dear Qcad Experts,
It looks like if I want to insert a unicode character in qcad text, I have got to insert one at a time from the drop down list after selecting the character set. Is there any chance that we can use the available keyboards (e.g. scim http://www.scim-im.org/) inside qcad?

If I try to activate scim in qcad, the only keyboard option I get for keyboard is English/European. But I have more than twenty language keyboards installed in my machine and they work perfectly in other applications.

Thanks in advance.

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:34 am
by andrew
This sounds like a Qt problem. Qt is a 3rd party library we use for developing QCAD. Qt has some other issues with alternative text input methods (e.g. speech recognition), so I can well imagine that it will cause problems with the software you've mentioned.

Unfortunately, it also means that we do not have a fix for that problem and one can only hope that eventually Qt will be fixed.

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:48 am
by mmasroorali
Looks like librecad http://librecad.org/cms/home.html with almost similar capabilities works better with unicode. I tested this feature.

Thanks anyway for your response.

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:58 am
by andrew
Thanks for the information. That's odd since Librecad is indeed based on an old version of QCAD (and therefore also based on Qt).