Foldit

DrSpinlock Lv 1

December 29, 2012

A new account creation is impossible from in-game UI : the user e-mail address can't be entered because the '@' character can't be typed in from a french keyboard ('ALT-GR' + '0') !?

Worse, if the user password contain some password-secure characters like '~', '#', '{', '[', '

', '', '^', '@', ']', '}', and more generally all characters that require an 'ALT-GR' combination on a french keyboard, then he would be unable to login when launching the foldit app !!

The same bug arise in all in-game textfields (french accented characters aren't available too..)

REMARK : As a professionnal developper, I think this is very poor programming for an application that pretend to have a worlwide scattering … :-(

tamirh Lv 1

December 31, 2012

I'll look into this. Can you let us know what operating system you are running Foldit on? Also, with your keyboard if you press Ctrl+Alt+(somekey) does it produce the same results as AltGr+(somekey)?

As a workaround, you can copy/paste into Foldit text fields.

steveB Lv 1

January 06, 2013

My laptop has a French keyboard and I have no problems at all either logging in or using the tools in the game.

fote Lv 1

March 22, 2015

Same here. My laptop has turkish-Q keyboard layout. alt-gr assited characters like > £ # $ ½ { [ ] } \ | can not be typed in game's username or password fields. I didn't in-game fields but i'm guessing they are the same.
My system is windows 8 single language,64-bit operating system, X64 based processor.