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Tthe ^-key kills build 132 immediately, when using the German keyboard layout. How can we stop that?

Jul 17th, 2000 15:16
unknown unknown, Neil Hodgson

This is a known problem. It occurs inside the line
   key = win32ui.TranslateVirtualKey(key)
   found in fire_key_event in Pythonwin\pywin\scintilla\bindings.py.
Mark is aware of the problem in the win32ui code, but you might want to 
try this short workaround while waiting for a fixed PythonWin. Just 
before the "if event is None:" line inside fire_key_event insert this 
code.
  if key == 220:
   return 1
This avoids calling win32ui.TranslateVirtualKey for the "^" key. More
tests may be needed for other accent characters or other locales.