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Bug 2747

Summary: Text input of accented characters
Product: SDL Reporter: yrizoud
Component: eventsAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: amaranth72
Version: 2.0.3   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows (XP)   

Description yrizoud 2014-10-07 18:43:16 UTC 
On a French AZERTY keyboard, several keys hold a single accent, and are supposed to be combined with the following (compatible) letter, examples:
- "^" followed by "e" should send a SDL_TextInputEvent with "ê"
- "¨" followed by "u" should send "ü" (german)
- "~" followed by "n" should send "ñ" (spanish).

It was fully working on SDL 1.3 : The input system "kept the accent in reserve" , and when typing the second key, the "unicode" field of the second key event was holding the combined, accented character. 
With SDL2 instead, the accentkeys send an immediate SDL_TextInputEvent event  with just the accent ("¨", "^", "~", "`"). Typing the second letter sends its own event, ignoring the accent previously typed.
Comment 1 yrizoud 2015-02-10 09:50:10 UTC 
Somebody proposed a patch in bug 2834 to fix exactly this issue

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2834 ***