Hi,
Im running houdini on osx 10.8.2 and i have problems with creating certain characters.

Biggest problem is that i cant create “$” character, so ive ended up copy pasting it from outside of houdini. Not very convenient.
It seems that none of the “Alt+” characters dont work.
Im using finnish layout but changing to uk layout didnt solve it either.

Has anyone had similar problems?

thanks!
Kustaa

Try the US keyboard. There have been a few issues like this for Swedish keyboards and US keyboard solved it.

thanks for the tip Marty,
unfortunately changing to US layout didnt solve it.

K

Houdini doesn't seem to like the option key modifier for some text fields. You may want to try some third-party software that can remap one key to another:

KeyRemap4MacBook (works on any keyboard, despite the name):
https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/ [pqrs.org]



Keyboard Maestro:
http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/ [keyboardmaestro.com]



I thought another solution might be to edit your global keybindings to automatically insert the $ symbol when you type some other key. Although many applications honor the change, Houdini 13 generally does not.



Houdini also seems to ignore the substitutions defined in the system Language & Text preference pane.

Thanks Chronon for indepth post!
I will try these keymapping solutions.
I noticed that same problem happens also in the license manager windows.

Kustaa