Special characters in Eclipse on an non-US keyboard

Question

For some reason, Eclipse does not register my keypress and I am not able to insert a pipe | anywhere.

I am using Windows 7 64bit, Eclipse Helios for PHP 64bit, Java 1.6.0_24-b05 64bit. The problem is my keyboard layout. The combination for pipe on Slovenian layout is Alt Gr + W.

Eclipse has a shortcut bound to the combination. As long as it is bound, it does what the action specifies. After I unbind it, it does nothing instead of inserting a pipe.

It's not working with the virtual keyboard.

It works if I switch to the US layout though where the combo is Shift + ].

Any ideas on how I might be able to get it working with my native layout?

Answer 1

It turns out that AnyEdit plugin added another keyboard shortcut of Ctrl + Alt + W. When I removed this one as well, pipe started working with Alt Gr.