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Unable to use Alt+Codes and the numeric pad to input accented characters

Michel Mullejans

I am a French translator working in the United States; I have recently been experiencing (intermittently though) the same problem Hector Martinez described in another question (in the Installation forum). This only appeared about a month into my use of Studio 2015 (I started using Studio in May or June of 2016), and now it only appears after about 30 + minutes of use of Studio. Closing the file and reopening it again allows for approximately half hour of keying in characters with Alt + Code normally, using the numeric pad. Then, abruptly, the message "Cannot access a disposed object..." reappears.

I have been using the "Alt+code" method using the Numeric Pad (Num Lock engaged) to write in the French language for over thirty years now. This technique is compatible with every other environment, including Trados 7.5, Word 2007, Word 2013, memoQ, Notepad, browsers... everything I have tried.

Walter Blaser from LTconsult answered Hector Martinez, saying that this is standard in MS Office, and that Word does not accept the use of Alt+codes to input foreign characters either. I have never experienced this; on any Windows system (I run Windows 10 on mine), I am able to use Alt/codes and the numeric pad in Excel, Word and PowerPoint, as well as everywhere else, as I have been doing for years.

Is it truly impossible to input foreign characters this way in Studio 2015? This would constitute what they call here a "Show Stopper."

This is a serious problem. I work in the US and need to use Studio on several different platforms--all using US, QWERTY keyboards of course. Do you have any suggestions? Are all future versions of Studio going to have this feature?

Thank you in advance for your constructive answers, let me know if anyone else has experienced this, and how to circumvent the problem to use Studio normally.
Michel Mullejans, Stayton, Oregon, USA
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    Hi Michel,

    I've been using Alt+NumPad for special characters each and every day without any problems for ages and in all Studio versions (now in Studio 2015). Are you sure that you haven't accidentially disabled Numlock?

    Regards,
    Stefan
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    Hi Stefan, thank you for your prompt reply to my post. I agree with you that Alt+NumPad works in all environments, has worked forever and always--and I was expecting it to work in Studio 2015 as well. But Studio behaves exactly as I have described: it will "let me" use the NumPad to write my accented French characters normally for some time, about half an hour. Eventually, the message "Cannot access a disposed object..." will reappear, and from that moment on, I am unable to enter any accented characters, although nothing has changed, and Num Lock is still activated (it is activated by default). As I wrote above, closing the document and reopening it allows another "grace period" of approximately half an hour to 45 minutes, and so on... This did not use to be the case; at the beginning of my use of Studio 2015, everything was normal--I was able to write accented characters without problems or limitations. This started to occur just a few weeks ago. It sounds as if you have never heard of this problem; perhaps you can suggest another forum or party to contact. Thanks again!
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    Hi Stefan, thank you for your prompt reply to my post. I agree with you that Alt+NumPad works in all environments, has worked forever and always--and I was expecting it to work in Studio 2015 as well. But Studio behaves exactly as I have described: it will "let me" use the NumPad to write my accented French characters normally for some time, about half an hour. Eventually, the message "Cannot access a disposed object..." will reappear, and from that moment on, I am unable to enter any accented characters, although nothing has changed, and Num Lock is still activated (it is activated by default). As I wrote above, closing the document and reopening it allows another "grace period" of approximately half an hour to 45 minutes, and so on... This did not use to be the case; at the beginning of my use of Studio 2015, everything was normal--I was able to write accented characters without problems or limitations. This started to occur just a few weeks ago. It sounds as if you have never heard of this problem; perhaps you can suggest another forum or party to contact. Thanks again!
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