Odd Behaviour in Version 6.02

[miking]

Hi,

I'm still using version 6 running on a Mac 9600/200 with a Sonnet 500MHz G3 accelerator. This card doesn't support the full OS 9.2, so I have OS 9.1 with a few selected bits of OS 9.2 which will work with the card.

The odd problem with verion 6 is that it has stopped rendering characters with discritical marks (very annoying when I'm working on my wife's German ancestors). If I open MSWord and type in a character with a diacritical mark, then I can type any character with a discritical mark into the person card which is open at the time. However, when I move to a new person card, this ability is lost.

If I remember correctly, this behaviour is slightly different from that of a month or two ago when, after typing in a character in Word, the ability to type such characters in Reunion was available until I quit the application.

Any thoughts?

I suppose I could try re-installing Reunion, if I could find the CD.

Regards,

Mike King.

[Michael]

The odd problem with verion 6 is that it has stopped rendering characters with discritical marks (very annoying when I'm working on my wife's German ancestors). If I open MSWord and type in a character with a diacritical mark, then I can type any character with a discritical mark into the person card which is open at the time. However, when I move to a new person card, this ability is lost.

If I remember correctly, this behaviour is slightly different from that of a month or two ago when, after typing in a character in Word, the ability to type such characters in Reunion was available until I quit the application.

Any thoughts?When a program or feature stops working abruptly, it is usually a sign that something has changed in your environment.

Here are a few things to check...

Did you change the font? It's possible that you've inadvertently changed to a font that doesn't include the diacritical characters.

Are you able to copy/paste text with diacritical characters into a field in Reunion?

Did you install any new applications or updates around the time that the problem started?

If all else fails, re-installing Reunion 6 wouldn't hurt.

[miking]

When a program or feature stops working abruptly, it is usually a sign that something has changed in your environment.

Here are a few things to check...

Did you change the font? It's possible that you've inadvertently changed to a font that doesn't include the diacritical characters.

Are you able to copy/paste text with diacritical characters into a field in Reunion?

Did you install any new applications or updates around the time that the problem started?

If all else fails, re-installing Reunion 6 wouldn't hurt.

I haven't changed the font. I can copy/paste text with diacritical marks, and when I do I can type other characters with diacritical marks into that person card.

I don't remember installing anything, Maybe Mozilla, but I really can't say.

I will hunt for the CD with Reunion 6 on it. If all else fails, I plan to buy a G4 loaded with Panther in a few months and I will then upgrade to Reunion 8.

Thanks for the advice,

Regards,

Mike King.

[Eirik Strøm]

The odd problem with verion 6 is that it has stopped rendering characters with discritical marks (very annoying when I'm working on my wife's German ancestors). If I open MSWord and type in a character with a diacritical mark, then I can type any character with a discritical mark into the person card which is open at the time. However, when I move to a new person card, this ability is lost.

In this situation one may be pretty certain that Reunion as such is not the culprit. Finding the real offender is another matter, that depends on the configurations of the computer, the software installed and even in what order programs are started.

If one observes this problem it may be helpful to define its nature. Open an “Edit Person” window in Reunion, then open the apple-menu item “Keyboard Layout”. Press the Alt-key and the letter c simultaneously, and then you write an accented character, for example é. Copy these letters into the clipboard, go to the “Edit Person” window, and paste the characters from the clipboard into Reunion. Then close the “Keyboard Layout” window and try to write the same characters directly into the “Edit Person” window.

If both characters fail to appear, chances are that the character mapping of your computer is affected in some way. If the first character (ç) appears, but you have trouble getting the “é”, then the theory is that something is meddling with the non-spacing keys of your keyboard, which is quite another matter.

To trace offending software you will have to run Reunion in various situations. I should start by turning the Mac off, wait half a minute, then starting the Mac and open Reunion without activating MSWord. If the problem ensues, deactivate any program that is automatically run at startup, turn the Mac off and on once more and check again. If you still see the problem, you may try to restart the Mac with all extensions off and experiment once more.

You may also test other software on you computer (text editors etc.) to see if some of these refuse to accept accented characters in the same way as Reunion.

Further speculations will be of little use until more is known of the exact problem and the software installed and run on the computer entroubled.

- Eirik Strøm