534529 - Provide ^ character on non US keyboards

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 478389

(Skywriter Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Julian Viereck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_2; de-de) AppleWebKit/531.21.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Safari/531.21.10
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The ^ character can not be typed within the bespin editor on non US keyboards as tested on a german and switzerland keyboard. This happens as on non US keyboards in some cases the ^ sign can be combined with a "a" to get â. As the ^ doesn't raise a suitable keydown event (just keycode = 0), you can't print it directly in Bespin.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Julian Viereck]

I fixed that bug for german and swiss keyboards, but I'm not sure how it behaves on other keyboards. The trick is, that when you had pressed the ^ key and then type another character later on, a keydown event with keycode = 229 is raised. This one can be detected and used to insert the ^.

See the patch here: http://bitbucket.org/j4c/bespinclient/changeset/bb83de772538/