Diacritics do not show in Hotkey Triggers

[vitor 895]

This is low priority. It’s a minor UI bug that does not prevent functionality.

Here’s a Hotkey Trigger I’ve setup with ⌘⇧`:

 

As you can see (or rather, can’t), the ` does not show. However, in practice the keyboard shortcut is recognised and works as intended. Other diacritics such as ~ and ^ have the same behaviour.

[deanishe 1,444]

Are those combining characters?

 

How are you entering them, btw? Do Portuguese keyboards have keys for the characters (on an English keyboard, you need to press ALT)?

 

[vitor 895]

17 minutes ago, deanishe said:

Are those combining characters?

 

Yes. Forgot to mention it in the original post, but they’re all keys that if you press them once, they don’t output the character itself, but a kind of “waiting mode”, waiting for a letter. Like this (notice how it gets an underline):

 

If you type an “invalid” letter or the same diacritic, it gets output → ~e ~~.

 

17 minutes ago, deanishe said:

Do Portuguese keyboards have keys for the characters

 

They sure do.

Edited August 15, 2017 by vitor

[Andrew 824]

@vitor I'm going to move this to noted. It's actually a pretty tricky thing to fix as Alfred knows it's a dead key you've entered, but macOS doesn't pass Alfred what that virtual dead key should look like, so I can't easily show a string representation for it.

 

It may have to remain a known issue for now.

 

Cheers,

Andrew