It seems that I am faced with multiple errors when attempting to code (Java through Eclipse) using the Colemak keyboard layout. Multiple else if statements would show errors or not run properly when typed in Colemak...after switching back to QWERTY (and retyping) the code would run perfectly without error.
Is there any apparent cause for this, or potential fixes?
Could it be a mapping error?
Any ideas or advice would be super.. Thanks
This sounds interesting. I once had a very odd situation where a character that was entered through a specific text editor, wouldn't save for some reason through webdav! So glyphs can trip things up. Could it be an encoding issue? Are you using the same encodings? Which OS? How are you selecting Colemak?
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I am curious..were you able to find a solution?
It is good to know that I am not the only one to have faced issues of this sort for I had the worst time finding anything even vaguely helpful or even similar to this problem.
By encoding I take it you mean ASCII, UTF-8, Windows 1252, etc?
I could very well be, I can't imagine how I would determine for certain if this is the cause or not..
Also I am not able to find/unsure of where I might look to find the specifics in regards to the Colemak character encoding.
I am running Windows 7 and selecting Colemak through the shortcut Ctrl + Shift (It's been downloaded and added to the language bar)
I apologize if I do not completely follow.....as programming is all relatively new to me.
I've used Eclipse with Python, but I was running Portable Keyboard Layout for Colemak(++). Anyway, no problems.
Now, what I'd check for would be quote signs and hyphens and suchlike. You have to use the " quote not the “” (typographical) ones, the standard hyphen-minus (-) not the en nor em dash (–—) and the less-/greater-than signs <> not the single guillemets ‹› etc. I remember running into trouble with those once; but that was when pasting in some code from an editor.
Yes, encodings are ASCII, UTF-8, ANSI, Windows 1252 etc. That can easily trip you up. Some editors are so finicky that if you enter one symbol off the encoding chart they switch encoding for you without telling you. On an anecdotic side note: MS Word will typically start thinking I'm writing in German if I type a ß (=ss). How meßed up is that? :D
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Do you have some (minimal) sample of code that reproduces the error? Can you share both the Colemak and Qwerty "versions" so we can do a byte per byte comparison? There must be some unintended wrong characters as DreymaR suggests...
I'm sorry I have been out of the class where I was working on this particular code. It appears that the issue was resolved once I came back to the computer the next day. I am not sure what to make of it, and if the problem comes up again I will be sure to copy the code and post it. I apologize for any inconvenience..
