idle mac os x international keyboard umlaut input

[Some Friend]

Am 08.01.12 23:12, schrieb Benjamin Kaplan:
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Some Friend<some-friend at web.de>  wrote:
>> Dear Friends,
>> with an international keyboard on mac os 10.6
>> an umlaut is inserted according to the chosen
>> keyboard layout with alt + u followed by a,
>> o or u for ä, ö or ü, or with cmd + " followed
>> by a, o or u for ä, ö or ü.  Neither way works
>> in the IDLE console or file window of IDLE.
>> Both ways work on the python console in a terminal
>> window.
>>
>> IDLE version 3.2.2, Phyton version 3.2.2 and
>> Tk version 8.5 according to IDLE ->  "About IDLE".
>>
>> Names of the keyboard layouts:
>> "US" and "US International - PC"
>>
>> Thank y'll for any Help
>> --
>
> This issue came up a few weeks ago too. The conclusion was that it's a
> bug in the Cocoa version of Tcl/Tk so there's unfortunately not much
> that can be done from the Python side.
>
> https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c7f22b059c68452a/85d11aa8f4b8b3c1

... so it's paste and copy then :-(.  Thanks for your Help.