Write accented characters while typing text.

[frnoal]

Hello everybody.

It's been a few days since I installed a very recent version of Freeplane via SNAP on my Linux computer. However, I cannot write accented characters while typing text. When I try to do so, the accented letter simply doesn't appear. Interestingly, I can insert (paste with CTRL+V) accented text normally.

The application configuration appears to be completely correct. UTF-8 characters in PT_br (Brazilian Portuguese).

On the other hand, I have an older version of Freeplane installed on the same machine via APT. In this version, all accented characters are typed normally.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks for any help.

[macmarrum]

Hi @frnoal

I don't use SNAP on my Linux system so it's difficult for me to compare our experience. But I can type accented characters just fine, so it looks like a SNAP-specific issue.

If you'd like to try the latest Freeplane version, it can be easily run from a "Downloads" directory. Once you download freeplane_bin-1.11.11.zip and unzip it, you can start Freeplane via freeplane.sh (either double-click it, or open a terminal in freeplane-1.11.11 and type ./freeplane.sh followed by Enter).

[frnoal]

Excellent idea!
Thanks!

[leo-puh]

I can confirm the same issue with Flatpak: diacrytics symbols does not appear. I tried one googled workaround by passing XMODIFIERS="" variable, which apparently led to 8-bit ASCII diacrytics symbol appear instead of UTF-8.
Meanwhile, 'native' compiled build works well. So I guess there is something wrong with snap and flatpak builds or sandboxing breaking diacrytics input.