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Bug 3458

Summary: [patch] x11: reset deadkeys in StartTextInput/StopTextInput
Product: SDL Reporter: Eric Wasylishen <ewasylishen>
Component: eventsAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 2.1   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Other   
Attachments: proposed patch

Description Eric Wasylishen 2016-10-17 03:05:48 UTC 
Created attachment 2586 [details]
proposed patch

Companion patch to https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3332 (win32), but for X11.

The patch makes StartTextInput/StopTextInput call Xutf8ResetIC ( https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man3/XmbResetIC.3.html ) on the XIC of all SDL windows.


This fixes my use case in Quakespasm (Ubuntu 16.04, system keyboard layout set to German. Type the '^' dead key, which opens Quakespasm's developer console and calls SDL_StartTextInput, then press 'e'. I expect the dead key to be ignored.)

Also, here is a patch for sdl2's "checkkeys" for testing this: https://bugzilla-attachments.libsdl.org/attachment.cgi?id=2451
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2016-10-18 04:38:15 UTC 
Fixed, thanks!
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/aea47b61c640