12393 - deadkeys are not functional

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 6053

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[Antoine Leca]

Sorry to assign to the wrong group.
I tested M8.5 (exec dated 1999-07-27).

I cannot enter any character using the AltGr key, but I believe this is
known as bug #11004 (BTW, in order to help, AltGr is also known as
Ctrl+Alt: both are functionnal equivalent).

In addition, I cannot enter the characters that are composed using
deadkey, using my stock French keyboard driver. The accent is not
inserted, only the base character gets entered.
I believe you will have same behaviour using the so-called
US-international layout that permit to enter accentuated characters.

I do not check the sources (lack of disk space), but I believe
a WM_DEADCHAR message is swallowed (i.e. not passed to DefWindowProc).
The same character, entered using the Alt+0xxx method, is all correct.

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

Tague is handling the keyboard input for window. Tague, let me know if you are
not familar with the WM_DEADCHAR  issue. I can help

Comment 2

[tague]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6053 ***