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Bug 2747 - Text input of accented characters
Summary: Text input of accented characters
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2834
Alias: None
Product: SDL
Classification: Unclassified
Component: events (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0.3
Hardware: x86 Windows (XP)
: P2 normal
Assignee: Sam Lantinga
QA Contact: Sam Lantinga
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Reported: 2014-10-07 18:43 UTC by yrizoud
Modified: 2015-02-10 09:50 UTC (History)
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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 ***