AltGr + { causes action of Ctrl + { in ebook editor

[Joona Järvelä]

In scandinavian keyboard layout character { is produced with combination of AltGr + {. In latest version of ebook editor this however makes cursor jump to the start tag which should be under combination of Ctrl + {. As the result it is impossible to produce character { or } in scandinavian keyboard layout in book editor.

[Charles Haley (cbhaley)]

NB: On Windows the AltGr key is implemented as Ctrl Alt. If you are using Windows then make sure you don't have Ctrl Alt defined in any shortcut where you want to use AltGr to get the shortcut character.

I suspect that in your case "Ctrl Alt {" is defined for the action you are seeing.

[Florian Brandmair (rabenpapa)]

The solution of Cahrles doesn't help.
It's an old problem also in german keyboard layout.

"Ctrl + Alt + {" and "AltGr + {" lead to the same result.
It doesn't work in the editor main windows of txt-files, but it works in css-files and in the search-box.
Therefore it's a solution to type the "{"-sign in the search-box and copy and paste it to the position in the main-window, where you need it.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.

 status fixreleased