special characters not working when using neo2 under windows

[Jörn Dreyer]

neo2 uses eg caps lock as a modifier. It used with the 'd' key to produce a colon. This might be a bug with python on windows or something in between it and zim.

Zim 0.65 on Windows 10 ... umm ... running 'zim -D' requires admin permissions to create the logfile in the app directoy and then fails with this:

INFO: Locale set to: de_DE.cp1252
INFO: This is zim 0.65
DEBUG: Python version is sys.version_info(major=2, minor=7, micro=11, releaselevel='final', serial=0)
DEBUG: Platform is nt
DEBUG: Zim revision is:
  branch: 065
  revision: 805 <email address hidden>
  date: 2015-11-01 15:42:45 +0100
DEBUG: Running from a source dir: C:\Program Files (x86)\Zim Desktop Wiki
DEBUG: Set XDG_DATA_HOME to C:\Users\jfd\AppData\Roaming\zim\data
DEBUG: Set XDG_DATA_DIRS to [<Dir: C:\Users\jfd\.local\share>]
DEBUG: Set XDG_CONFIG_HOME to C:\Users\jfd\AppData\Roaming\zim\config
DEBUG: Set XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to [<Dir: C:\Users\jfd\.config>]
DEBUG: Set XDG_CACHE_HOME to C:\Users\jfd\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\zim
DEBUG: Loading config from: <zim.notebook.VirtualFile object at 0x02CF5530>
DEBUG: Loading config from: C:\Users\jfd\Notebooks\Notes\notebook.zim
DEBUG: Wrote C:\Users\jfd\AppData\Roaming\zim\config\zim\notebooks.list
INFO: Using default notebook: file:///C:/Users/jfd/Notebooks/Notes
DEBUG: Wrote C:\Users\jfd\Notebooks\Notes\.zim\tmp
INFO: Remove file: C:\Users\jfd\Notebooks\Notes\.zim\tmp
DEBUG: Loading config from: C:\Users\jfd\Notebooks\Notes\notebook.zim
DEBUG: Cache dir: C:\Users\jfd\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\zim\zim\notebook-C_Users_jfd_Notebooks_Notes
DEBUG: Index database file: C:\Users\jfd\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\zim\zim\notebook-C_Users_jfd_Notebooks_Notes\index.db
DEBUG: Remote call from 10668: <RemoteMethodCall: 10668: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Starting server by spawning new process
INFO: Spawning: ['C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Zim Desktop Wiki\\zim', '--ipc-server-main', '\\\\.\\pipe\\zim-jfd-server', '10'] (cwd: None)
DEBUG: Process started with PID: 0
DEBUG: Remote call from 10668: <RemoteMethodCall: 10668: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "zim.py", line 50, in <module>
  File "zim\ipc.pyo", line 124, in handle_argv
  File "zim\ipc.pyo", line 315, in servermain
AttributeError: 'Blackhole' object has no attribute 'isatty'
DEBUG: Remote call from 10668: <RemoteMethodCall: 10668: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 10668: <RemoteMethodCall: 10668: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 10668: <RemoteMethodCall: 10668: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 10668: <RemoteMethodCall: 10668: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 10668: <RemoteMethodCall: 10668: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 10668: <RemoteMethodCall: 10668: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 10668: <RemoteMethodCall: 10668: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 10668: <RemoteMethodCall: 10668: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Remote call from 10668: <RemoteMethodCall: 10668: zim.ipc.Server(None).ping((), {})>
DEBUG: Cannot connect to server 10668:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "zim\ipc.pyo", line 273, in start_server_if_not_running
  File "zim\ipc.pyo", line 763, in call
  File "multiprocessing\connection.pyo", line 167, in Client
  File "multiprocessing\connection.pyo", line 387, in PipeClient
WindowsError: [Error 2] Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden

ERROR: Exception in main()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "zim\main.pyo", line 446, in main
  File "zim\main.pyo", line 211, in run
  File "zim\ipc.pyo", line 283, in start_server_if_not_running
AssertionError: Failed to start server (spawning)
DEBUG: Running ErrorDialog

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

No idea what to do here