Greek Character Input

Registered by Matthew Gates

Bayer designations include Greek letters. For users who do not find it convenient to type Greek letters directly, there should be some sort of input aid to do this.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
None
Priority:
Undefined
Drafter:
None
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
treaves
Definition:
New
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 0.11.0
Started by
Alexander Wolf
Completed by
Alexander Wolf

Sprints

Whiteboard

A rudimentary version of this has been implemented in revisions 4290, 4292 and 4293. Bayer designations are recognised and Greek letters can be entered by typing the Greek letter's name (e.g. 'alpha', 'beta', etc.)

Mike Storm started redesigning the internal workings of the Search feature, but as far as I know, this hasn't been completed:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=f7a4a2e60902271024v64de386h8aaf30d21a4aac3%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=stellarium-pubdevel

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Work Items

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