Can't enter the hash symbol when using an Italian keyboard

[l-de-lellis]

Hello and thank you for writing this great software,

I'm trying sublimeless_zk with an Italian keyboard where the hash symbol is entered using the AltGr (third level modifier) key + à letter. The key combination works as expected for invoking the "all tags" saved search (#!) or for tag completion command (#?) even if no character is shown on the editor, but I cannot insert a new tag because typing only the # symbol doesn't result in any character showing in the editor pane and it also truncates the first letter of the tag word (e.g. if I want to insert the #zettelkasten tag by writing directly the letters sequence I obtain "ettelkasten").

If I switch to the ENG keyboard layout (on Windows 10) all works as expected, so I suspect there is an issue with the AltGr key combination.

[renerocksai]

Interesting. Hmmm. Let me get this right:

• You can use #! and #?
• Via #? you can insert existing #tags
• You cannot use the # symbol in the text editors
• You did not try to insert a new tag in the #? selection dialog

Definitely, something weird is going on here. Seems like some UTF issue, as a first guess.

What happens when you insert an # symbol in the editor via AltGr + à and then stop typing? Does a # show up?

[renerocksai]

Kudos you got the Windows Version running, though. I noticed, on some (like: freshly installed) Windows machines, it currently doesn't.

[l-de-lellis]

I did some further testing and noticed the same behavior also with the left square bracket (on the italian keyboard: AltGr + è). So:

• You can use #! and #?

• Yes, I can use the shortcuts but the letters do not appear in the editor.

• Via #? you can insert existing #tags

• Yes, if a tag is already present I can insert it via the tag selection dialog.

• You cannot use the # symbol in the text editors

• Yes, if i type just # or [ with the Italian keyboard layout nothing is shown
  • If I type # or [ and a word, the first letter of the word is truncated

• You did not try to insert a new tag in the #? selection dialog

• No, I had no idea that it was possible and still it isn't clear to me how it should work. If I type in the text area of the tag dialog it only narrows the list of the pre-existing tags. If I enter something that's not already here and press Enter nothing happens.

I did some screen recording to better illustrates what happens.

Kudos you got the Windows Version running, though. I noticed, on some (like: freshly installed) Windows machines, it currently doesn't.

Version pre-0.2 runs fine on my system, but I have anaconda python installed with all the dependencies required by sublimeless_zk. Yesterday I was able to run also the pre-release version cloned from GitHub and to successfully compile into an .exe.

[renerocksai]

I hope the latest commits fixed this. See #32