Re: pgAdmin still doesn't support Japanese in grid view on the Mac

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Herouth Maoz <pgadmin@herouth-maoz.name> wrote:
> Six years ago I reported here that editing a table in pgAdmin doesn't work with Japanese. It's simply impossible to
enterJapanese in the grid. 
>
> The grid does not support the IME natively. The IME tries to compensate for this by opening an "input bar" at the
bottomof the screen where one can input the word and select from the various alternatives in Japanese. However, this
doesnot work, because to approve the Japanese input, one has to press either the Return key or Tab - both of which are
interceptedby pgAdmin and move the cursor to the next column. 
>
> I just tested it again, as I've been looking at several new database tools today. I was hoping that pgAdmin has
advancedin six years... 
>
> The application icon improved - now it has more clickable area. That's good, I complained about that in the past and
it'sbeen fixed. 
>
> But the input in Japanese is still not working.

Unfortunately that's entirely down to wxWidgets as far as I'm aware.
It's unlikely to be fixed in pgAdmin 3, but you'll be please to know
that pgAdmin 4 is nearing it's first alpha release, and that uses
entirely different technologies which shouldn't have this problem.

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