[PD] unable to type certain characters

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

On 2016-07-26 13:01, Christof Ressi wrote:
> which characters are 'forbidden' in Pd message boxes? E.g. I'm unable to type a backslash or curly braces. I get the following error message: 
> 
> 'keycode #N dropped' (where #N is the ASCII code). 

yes this is expected behaviour, on all operating systems.
among other things, this prevents w32 users from using backslash as
directory delimiter¹.

the list of forbidden characters is exactly this: \, {, }

fgmasdr
IOhannes

¹ though of course this is not the real reason why these keys are forbidden.

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