Reunion 8 incompatible with Character Palette

[Richard Wolters]

I am using Reunion 8.0.6 and Mac OS X 4.2 (Tiger) on a dual 1.4ghz PowerPC G4. I have German ancestors with umlauted characters in their names. However, when I bring up the Character Palette, the 'insert' button is grayed out so I can't insert any umlauted characters. The Character Palette works fine with MacFamilyTree, but not with Reunion 8.

Anyone have any work-arounds?

Thank you,

Richard

[David G. Kanter]

…when I bring up the Character Palette, the 'insert' button is grayed out so I can't insert any umlauted characters.I use PopChar X. (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14804). Although it's currently US$30, it's always done the job for me—and with a simple interface, too. For me, in the overall scheme of things, it has been a very good investment. (Your mileage may vary.)

Perhaps other readers can chime in with a less-expensive (if not free) alternative that is working well for them.

[saoi]

However, when I bring up the Character Palette, the 'insert' button is grayed out so I can't insert any umlauted characters...Anyone have any work-arounds?Sure. Don't use the Character Palette. For one thing it's not necessary. Using a standard American keyboard (I presume that's what you're using), all umlauted characters can be gotten to directly from the keyboard. Option u + the vowel you want the umlaut (or dieresis) over (that would be a,e,i,o,u & y)

One of the few failings in Reunion is good support for accented characters and especially those of eastern Europe and non Roman characters.

rich

[Richard Wolters]

...Using a standard American keyboard (I presume that's what you're using), all umlauted characters can be gotten to directly from the keyboard. Option u + the vowel you want the umlaut (or dieresis) over (that would be a,e,i,o,u & y)Sorry Rich, doesn't work. I get the umlaut, but not the vowel.

Richard

[Richard Wolters]

I use PopChar X. (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14804)...Thank you David, I'll take a look at PopChar X.

Richard

[David G. Kanter]

…doesn't work. I get the umlaut, but not the vowel.After you type the combination of Option+U for the umlaut, you then need to release the Option key before you type the vowel that is to have the umlaut over it. (At least that works for me—although I still like having the full table of accented characters, etc., to choose from that PopChar X gives me. PopChar X also allows you to decide whether you want just the "combination" characters displayed in the table, or whether you want the "regular" alphanumeric characters and/or the Control-modified characters displayed, too.)

[Dennis J. Cunniff]

When I bring up the Character Palette, the 'insert' button is grayed out so I can't insert any umlauted characters.The typing hints below should work, but: even when the insert button is greyed out, you can click and drag a character from the character palatte over to the edit window in Reunion and "drop" it where you need it.

This works exactly as anticipated for characters within the font you've using in the edit window (and ü-umlaut is certainly among these). Some of the fancier Unicode characters, with multiple diacritics, will show up as empty boxes if they are not in the selected font.

[Richard Wolters]

After you type the combination of Option+U for the umlaut, you then need to release the Option key before you type the vowel that is to have the umlaut over it. (At least that works for me—although I still like having the full table of accented characters, etc., to choose from that PopChar X gives me. PopChar X also allows you to decide whether you want just the "combination" characters displayed in the table, or whether you want the "regular" alphanumeric characters and/or the Control-modified characters displayed, too.)Thank you David. You correctly deduced what I was doing wrong. Letting up on the option key before typing the vowel did the trick.

Richard