Accented Characters

[Zsolt Rizsanyi]

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 13:05, Richard Allen wrote:
> Hello all.  I've been trying to get accented characters to work propperly
> in wine.
> For those who dont know, accented characters are beasts like "áéýúíó"
> We obtain them by pressing the dead key (mute_acute in my case) and then
> the key we want accented.
>
> I'm using CVS as of yesterday.
> [ra at xo winecvs]$ cat wine/VERSION
> Wine version 20021125
>
> As far as I can tell, dlls/x11drv/keyboard.c seems to be where my
> problem is.
>
> [ra at xo ra]$ wine /home/ra/.wine/c_drive/Program\ Files/mIRC/mirc.exe
> fixme:keyboard:X11DRV_KEYBOARD_DetectLayout Your keyboard layout was not
> found! Using closest match instead (Icelandic keyboard layout) for scancode
> mapping. Please define your layout in windows/x11drv/keyboard.c and submit
> them to us for inclusion into future Wine releases.
> See the Wine User Guide, chapter "Keyboard" for more information.
>
> Now, keyboard.c does have a definition for the Icelandic keyboard, but as
> far as I can tell it's only used to recognize what keymap is in action, and
> not to define it ?.   I've experimented with it, things like changing the
> "2" key to a "b" but it did not change the keyboard layout.
>
> The warning above is just because the definition in wine for the IS keymap
> doesnt match the one thats shipping with XFRee86 completely ?
>
> Anyway. my battle for the accented characters continues.  The keyboard
> handling in wine is unlike anything I've ever seen before.
> Can anyone give me a quick runthru on how keyboard handling really works
> in wine, and prehaps help fix this ?
>
> Also, how are accented characters (dead keys) working in other languages ?
> Is this a problem limited to Icelandic or to accented characters in
> general ?

AFAIK this is a general problem. The attached patch should solve it. Tough it 
is not the proper fix (at least there is a better fix that will be merged in 
wine in the future). For more info see my reply to email 'Turkish keyboard 
Support' from yesterday.

Regards
Zsolt
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