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pain of salvation

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Registered: 2007-05-22

Posts: 76

Opera's keyboard shortcuts keep changing

When I browse some sites, like Orkut, my keyboard shortcut configuration changes. Don't know why this happens, and when it happens, I cannot write any letter with an accent, like "é", "ã" etc.

So everytime I enter that kind of site I have to go to Tools - Preferences - Shortcuts - Keyboard configuration and change the standard to Opera standard for UNIX. Now I can write letters with accent, but when I enter the site again, I have to do everything again!

Does anybody have this problem too?

pain of salvation

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Registered: 2007-05-22

Posts: 76

Re: Opera's keyboard shortcuts keep changing

I think I solved the problem...

I just needed to edit rc.conf and change locale from pt_BR.utf8 to pt_BR.iso88591, uncomment pt_BR iso-8859-1 on /etc/locale.gen and run locale-gen

By the way, whats the difference between utf8 and iso88591?

wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: Opera's keyboard shortcuts keep changing

Ever heard about Unicode?

To explain it briefly: Before Unicode every charset consisted of 255 different characters (some are control characters, like e.g. line break). This means you can only use these characters. This is a problem if you want to use e.g. cryllic characters or even worse if you are asian and your alphabet consists of much more than 255 characters.

Now with Unicode there are more characters possible. UTF-8 is now one implementation of Unicode. If you open an UTF-8 document with latin1 encoding, you'll realize that special characters (like umlauts, accented characters,...) break into two characters. e.g. Ä breaks into ä As you see, there are some characters (standard ASCII) only using the space of one character and some using up two four traditional characters.

Last edited by wuischke (2007-07-21 06:19:47)

pain of salvation

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Registered: 2007-05-22

Posts: 76

Re: Opera's keyboard shortcuts keep changing

Well, I thought the problem was solved, but it was not. Sometimes the problem persists.