ׁWhen I'm using my custom Hebrew keyboard, I find that some characters don't appear in keyboard viewer.
While this is mildly irritating for some issues, I mapped all of the cantillation characters to option-numbers and none of them appear. Since I don't recall which is which, this is incredibly problematic.
Is there a way to change the keyboard viewer so as to show these characters ?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS High Sierra (10.13.1)
NoachAv wrote:
The layout works, it's just that the keyboard isn't displaying properly, now.
Understood. But I've made dozens of keyboards without having that problem, and there is nothing you can change about keyboard viewer anyway. So presumably something is amiss in the .keylayout file. Those question marks are not normal either. Email the flle. if you would like me to take a look.
NoachAv wrote:
No problems in my guest account
That would normally indicate something in Home/Library is causing the problem, often a bad .plist. But in this case my guess would be a 3rd party font. You could try removing half the fonts in Home/Library/Fonts temporarily to perhaps narrow down the possible culprit.
In my High Sierra it definitely looks like Lucida Grande, and all the characters display correctly. I wonder if somewhere you may have another older version of this font which is more limited, or another more limited font which is being mistaken for Lucida Grande.
Doesn't that jklstudios link explain how to disable/remove fonts in system/library/fonts?
Try setting up a new user account and see if you have the same issue when logged into that.
Go to applications/font book and do File/restore standard fonts and restart.
It looks like it is the layout which needs fixing. Could you email me a copy and I will have a look (tom at bluesky dot org)? Assume you use Ukelele?
Doesn't Apple's Hebrew qwerty already do this on the Option level?
Salvatore Micciche' wrote:
But this will remove every other fonts (and I have about 200, that then I'll have to restore)...
My guess is that one of the fonts you may have installed in Home/Library/Fonts is interfering with the one normally used by Apple, so you will eventually need to deactivate it in any case.
You might also try a safe boot
macOS Sierra: Start up in safe mode
and setting up a new user account.
I noted that also in the Italian (English) virtual keyboard the symbol for Enter (Return) is a "?", perhaps it was used the "Last resort" font how if a font was missing... The symbol (↵) is ok in a fresh account in the same machine.
I controlled that every system font is ok and installed...
Salvo
Salvatore Micciche' wrote:
I controlled that every system font is ok and installed...
I don't think your problem could be missing or damaged Apple fonts. It's most likely some font you have installed which is botched and causing a conflict. Have you tried just temporarily removing them to your desktop and restarting to see if helps fix the problem? If it does, you can put half back in at a time to narrow down the possible culprit.
Salvatore Micciche' wrote:
I have the problem in two different computers with two working accounts but not with fresh (and void) account in both of them.
So both of the working accounts have the same thing in them, presumably not from Apple, which is interfering with Keyboard Viewer. The problem is how to figure out what that might be...
The layout works, it's just that the keyboard isn't displaying properly, now.
Thanks for sending the layout. It displays fine in Keyboard Viewer on my High Sierra, so it must be a local system problem. In my email I made some suggestions, let me know if you have any luck.
No problems in my guest account
Perhaps best to just move to a new account, but try this too,
please, help!
I've that problem still in Mac OS Sierra 10.13.2!
Arabic and Hebrew keyboard viewer show a series of "???" instead of the accents and Niqqud!
Any workaround, please?
For me is important to have them working as it was in Sierra!
Salvo
Some characters not appearing in keyboard viewer
