Dead Keys and Compose Key Sequences not working

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William Ivanski

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Jan 19, 2018, 7:45:15 AM1/19/18
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Hi,

I'm using a Brazilian Portuguese keyboard, and accentuated characters such as á, ã, ó, õ can't be typed inside a <input type="text"> . I tested in Linux, Windows and MacOSX.

I found that this issue explains the behavior: https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/2229

I understand that, as this issue is still open in CEF, the behavior will still be present in cefpython3. I'm wondering if you guys know a workaround for this.

Thanks in advance,

William Ivanski

Czarek Tomczak

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Jan 19, 2018, 8:12:34 AM1/19/18
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Hi William,

Are you saying that it doesn't work on none of the systems? If so you should add a comment in upstream Issue 2229 about that, because it says only about Linux.

Another related issue in tracker: https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/2039/portugal-brazil-characters-not-input

Can you test whether dead keys work in Adobe Brackets? Brackets is using CEF. Related Brackets issues:
- https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/10633
- https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/13721

All bug reports found in CEF and Brackets suggest that this is Linux only issue. If so then there is PR #127 in CEF that can fix this. You would have to build CEF from sources, apply that patch and test whether it fixes the problem.

Best regards.

William Ivanski

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Jan 19, 2018, 8:39:53 AM1/19/18
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Hi Czarek,

Thanks for your quick response.

You are right, issue is Linux only. I quickly reviewed keyboard settings on Windows and MacOSX I have at hand here, and I can confirm it works on both systems.

The issue is the same as reported in [1] and [2], and it is definitely Linux only.

I will take a look at the PR you mentioned [3]. At a first glance, it seems specific to Aura and also forces a GTK dependency. Maybe I will have to adapt it to fit my needs, I will report you back once I have any results.

Thanks and regards,

William Ivanski


Czarek Tomczak

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Feb 6, 2018, 8:45:34 AM2/6/18
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