Can't get tilde character with IDLE 3.2.2 on French Mac Lion

[Franck Ditter]

Nope, "space" followed by "Shift-Option-N" gives a greek iota...
I tried other combinations, unsuccessfully.
IDLE 3 (French) seems to be unusable as we use many ~ in web applications :-(
Should we hope a fix soon, or leave IDLE ?
Thanks,

    franck

In article <mailman.3825.1324322364.27778.python-list at python.org>,
 Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:

> In article <franck-6EFD3C.10155219122011 at news.free.fr>,
>  Franck Ditter <franck at ditter.org> wrote:
> > All is in the subject. I'm starting to use Python with Idle 3.2.2
> > on MacOS-X Lion (French). I can't get "Option-N space" to provide 
> > the ~ char.
> > I tried to go into the Keys preferences but I can't find "Option-N space"
> > to modify its meaning. Its actual behavior is to merge lines of a 
> > paragraph.
> 
> You are likely running into a current problem in the OS X Cocoa version 
> of Tcl/Tk 8.5 as included with Lion and as shipped by ActiveState.  
> Previously, if you tried to type composite characters, like Option N, 
> the Cocoa Tcl/Tk would crash.  Pending a real fix, a patch was made to 
> Tcl/Tk 8.5 to discard composite characters rather than crash.  You 
> should be able to get a tilde by using the post-composite keyboard 
> sequence:  try typing "space" followed by "Shift-Option-N".
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2907388&group_id=12997&atid=112997