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Bug 2577

Summary: TextInput: encoding problem when using dead keys on X11
Product: SDL Reporter: Emanuel Guével <guevel.emanuel>
Component: videoAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 2.0.3   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Attachments: Minimal program to show text inputs on standard output

Description Emanuel Guével 2014-06-08 11:20:29 UTC 
Created attachment 1675 [details]
Minimal program to show text inputs on standard output

TextInput event text is incorrect when using dead keys.

When I press the key 'é', 'é' is inserted, which is correct.
When I press the keys '´' (dead acute), then 'e', 'é' is inserted instead of 'é'.

The letter built with a dead key is mis-encoded. I have the same result applying a WINDOWS-1252 to UTF-8 charset conversion to an UTF-8 string:
> $ echo é | iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 
> é

I join the program I used to reproduce the bug.
If that helps, I am using Arch Linux.
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2017-08-14 13:02:29 UTC 
This should be fixed in the latest SDL snapshot:
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-2.0.zip

Please reopen this bug if that's not the case.

Thanks!