Problem with the "Record Screen" feature.

Mar 10, 2014

Hello 

I'm doing some catch with the feature "record screen". Dont understand, there is some problems with the spelling of what is recorded. 

I'm from Brazil, the Portuguese have letters (characters) with some peculiarities, such as  "ç", "à", "ã", "á".

Unfortunately, when I'm writing, these characters cant appear. 

Have I changed the keyboard language, the language of the program, but to no avail. The problem persists. 

I believe the problem occurs because in English there is no such "special characters". 

The only way I managed to solve the problem is by doing the following. For example, I want the word "André" appears in the catch. As its not possible to write the character "é" I type "Andr ALT + 130". only then is the result I want. 

Is there another way to solve this?

14 Replies
Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Artur, 

Storyline doesn't have the option to localize the language for the software itself, so I would imagine that is why it's unable to create the special characters as a part of your screen recording from you typing them on the keyboard. Although I'm curious to know what shows up when you do type them? Have you also set Storyline up with a font that includes these characters? 

Artur Querino

Hello! 

These characters usually work throughout the program. Standard characters are present in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan etc. 

Usually a video recording of my (attached). 

You'll see that I write first to "record sreen" option disabled. After I write the same text with the "record sreen" enabled. See the difference.

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Artur,

Thanks for the video - I don't have a different language keyboard or languages installed so it was helpful to see the behavior and clarify what we were discussing. For the C with tail (for lack of a better description) that one seems to appear normally - and only the E and A characters add the additional elements? To help me narrow down the issue, does it seem that this only occurs with vowels? Are you able to try with other characters and share a video letting me know how they behave and what language you have this set to?

Artur Querino

I made a new recording of longer words. I write with the English language! 

The video is attached.

Hope you can identify this problem. 

It would be interesting to test you got it. Making a recording. 

I imagine that Articulate has customers all over the world, this should not happen only to me ... 

Await news! 

Thank you.

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Artur,

I had one of my colleagues test this using the Alt codes for Portuguese characters similar to in your file. He recorded a video of the behavior and wasn't able to replicate what you shared. As a next step, can you tell us how your generating those characters: i.e., copy and paste from somewhere, is it a standard Portuguese keyboard, a Windows keyboard with a Portuguese setting, using the Alt codes like in the video?

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Artur,

I certainly understand, but to further troubleshoot the issue I'll need to know more about your set up and how you are typing these characters? The alt key was currently the only way I was able to replicate it as I don't have a set up for Portuguese. So, can you share more about if you have a specialized Portuguese keyboard? Is it a windows settings? 

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Artur,

Thanks for confirming those elements. I won't be able to test this myself, so I've shared with a few colleagues who may have different language set ups on their computers and/or keyboards. I'm not sure that they'll be able to test today - but hopefully I'll have some additional information early next week. 

Thanks for your patience. 

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Cristina,

My memory on this issue is a bit fuzzy - but I don't see where it was reported to our QA team, so I suspect the other team members who had keyboards to try and replicate this on were unable to do so. Are you using SL 1 or SL2? I'm curious if the behavior is different in SL2 since you can localize the language for French, Spanish, Chinese, etc. and then still use your Spanish keyboard? 

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