PR# 17394 Unable to type international characters in EiffelStudio

You can't type international characters like the swedish å, ä, and ö and other characters with accents and so on (e.g. é, â, ü, ñ) in EiffelStudio. Same problem with the special characters §, ½, £, ¤ and €.

The characters that requires two key presses on my swedish keyboard, like é results in an e without the accent. The characters that requires only one key press is completely dead.

Copy/paste the characters from another location works (both when copied from within EiffelStudio or from another application.

I have tried with several different settings of the LANG environment variable (en_US.iso8859-1, sv_SE.iso8859-1 and sv_SE.utf-8) but that didn't had any effect.

I have tried on two different Linux distros: 32 bit OpenSuSE 11.2 and 64 bits Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and with 3 different settings of the LANG environment variable (en_US.iso8859-1, sv_SE.iso8859-1 and sv_SE.utf-8)

Start EiffelStudio.
Create a new project or open an existing one.
Try typing some of the following characters: åäö§½£¤€üéñ
Result:
The characters that requires two keypresses shows as just the last key was pressed.
For the characters that requires only one keypress nothing at all happens.