Latin characters accentuation

[marcocspc]

Hello! I’m having problems with latin accented characters. When I type the character is shown normally, but with its accent’s characters on its side. Like this: é’é’, ã~, and so on... I’m attaching a screen capture to show it on the app.

[terrychou]

Please provide the way to reproduce the problem, for example, how do I input the accented characters? And the versions of your app and system.

[marcocspc]

Thanks for the quick response.

To type the accented characters you should use apple magic keyboard, international version. On System Settings App > General > Keyboard > Physical Keyboard, you should select International USA - PC for input language. Then you can type pressing tilde (under esc key) and A or O, another way would be pressing single quote (‘) and then A, E, I, O or U.

Software version: iVim 2.10 and iPadOS 13.1.3

[terrychou]

Unfortunately, I don’t have a magic keyboard by hand. I will see whether I can test it in other ways.

[terrychou]

It's been fixed. The fix will be available in the upcoming update.

[AmaruCoder]

I have been dealing with this issue too, and have been waiting for the next release. Is there any way to get early access?

[terrychou]

@AmaruCoder the new update just passed Apple’s review, should be available soon.

[AmaruCoder]

@terrychou thank you very much for the quick turnaround. I have installed the new version, and found a strange behavior. I am using an external keyboard set with the US layout for these tests. For comparison, this is what happened in different versions:

Version 2.00 (and all other editors in iOS) <alt-e> + e = é (the expected behavior)

Version 2.10 <alt-e> + e = é´ (notice the accent mark after the letter)

Version 2.12

Alt enabled: <alt-e> + e = åe

Alt disabled:

<alt-e> + e = e <alt-e> + e + <backspace> = crashes iVim

I wonder if version 2.10 has changed the keyboard handler, and, if so, it could be restored to the one used in 2.00?

[terrychou]

@AmaruCoder this is caused by the conflict between this and the newly added Key Repeating option (#88). For now, you need to switch the latter off (it is on by default) to make the former work. I will find a fix.

[terrychou]

@AmaruCoder and it's been fixed. If you would like to test it, please give me an email.

[AmaruCoder]

Great. Thank you very much for looking into it. I would like to test the new version. My email is escribidor at att.net.

[AmaruCoder]

Thank you for the invitation to test iVim. Just one question, would installing the test version of iVim delete the data in the app?

[terrychou]

@AmaruCoder although it warned me of this sometimes, I don't remember any data loss. However, you better test it with a safer settings, backup you data first.

[AmaruCoder]

Thank you. The new version works great. However, there is a new issue. When I switch applications, using an external keyboard (with \<command-tab\>), sometimes iVim look like the enclosed image (notice the black band above and the compressed characters). This happened more often with PDF Expert (a PDF viewer). I imagine this has to do with the new Italic and Boldface support.

[terrychou]

It should have nothing to do with the bold and italic style support.

Do you have a way to reproduce it (in a sure way)? Did this ever happen when switching apps without a hardware keyboard?

[AmaruCoder]

Yes, you open iVim, then <command-tab> to PDF Expert and back to iVim. Perhaps PDF expert sets up properties for the screen that iVim doesn't clear out? This is something that didn't happen in the previous version of iVim.

[terrychou]

@AmaruCoder I tried with PDF Expert 7 but failed to reproduce this problem.

[AmaruCoder]

Thank you very much for the help. Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the issue consistently. It happens sometimes but not in a way I can reproduce. Thank you again for the time, and for making Vim available on the iPad. It has changed the way I work.