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Strange key stroke behaviour in editor in Linux

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Jenna:
I also use a german keyboard layout, but never had such a behaviour.
Neither on windows (xp,vista,win7-64) nor on linux (debian,ubuntu,centos,fedora,opensuse).
I will test it tomorrow with the version you use.

PgmHelmi:
Hi Jens!

Would be great if you could do this. On Windows I never had this problem too.

But before check another thing, because I noticed now, that it happens only with the Ctrl key on the right side and not with the one on the left side.
Also when marking text with mouse or only with Shift + Cursor Right it works correctly.

Kind regards!

PgmHelmi

Jenna:
Works fine here.
OpenSuse 11.3 32-bit C::B 6853, in kvm virtual machine.

There is one thing that does not work (or more exactly two): the grave accent (`) and the acute accent (´), but they don't work in any place in my suse-installation.

PgmHelmi:
Intersting!

The accent keys work for me. There are two key board settings. "Deutschland" where the accent keys work in combination with other keys, e.g. à and
"Deutschland Akzenttasten deaktivieren" where the accent keys are only single characters and this is the default setting when OpenSuse is installed new
and which I have. The other I tested only.
Do you have the german user interface too, or the english one and only keyboard layout set to german? When I find it how to change I will try the english
user interface.

Kind regards!

PgmHelmi

PgmHelmi:
Found the reason!

Searched again in internet with my latest knowledge and found that the behavior comes from the "Compose Key", which is apparently set to Shift + Right-Ctrl.
It signals the software to interpret the following sequence of two (or more) keystrokes as a combination in order to produce a character not found directly on the keyboard.
It has nothing to do with marking, but could be solved by the underlying text editor.
Because I found in gedit the compose key works as expected when only the two keys mentioned above are pressed and when Right Arrow for marking is pressed additionally it works
like expected not as "Compose Key" too.
I know it is not a direct Code::Blocks issue but the editor it uses. And I could find the same behavior in Firefox address text field.
Now the only thing is to find how to change the "Compose Key".


Kind regards!

PgmHelmi

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