button keyboard shortcuts by underscores doesnt work in combination with button text with underscore

[ladiko]

I use button shortcuts in Xubuntu 16.04 with yad 0.38.2-1 (Ubuntu 17.04 version) like this:

yad --button "_whatever"

So the button shows "whatever" and if I press Alt, it changes to "whatever" and i can press W as a keyboard shortcut. This is fine. It also works to show underscores by doubling them as in:

yad --button "what__ever"

and the button is labeled with "what_ever" - regardless if i press Alt or not (which is also fine). What doesnt work is to combine both features by executing:

yad --button "_what__ever"

It shows "whatever" normally (which is wrong) and "what_ever" when Alt is pressed (which is right).

[Милош Павловић]

To display as a single character '_', you tried to escape the mnemonic character with

__

instead, there is an underline in ever.
Interesting behaviour.

yad --button $(printf "%b\n"  "_what__\u00A0__ever\u2028_what__\u1680ever\u2028_what__\u200Bever") --button $(echo -e '__e') --button $(echo -e "__a__b__c__d")

This way there is no underline untill Alt keypress.

yad --button $(printf "%b\n"  "_what__\u200Bever")

\u200B - zero width space

[Милош Павловић]

This trick with Pango markup works: <u>\u2002</u>

yad --button $(echo -e "_what<u>\u2002</u>ever")

уторак, 09. мај 2017. 10.37.42 UTC+2, ladiko је написао/ла:

[ladiko]

Great it works, thanks!

[Милош Павловић]

No problem.
It works in case you don't need '--no-markup'.
If you however need that option, next line will do the job.

yad --button "_what__ever" --no-markup