Regression: Blender text editor lost support for dead keys #95410
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System Information
Operating system: Linux-4.19.0-11-amd64-x86_64-with-glibc2.31 64 Bits
Graphics card: Quadro RTX 5000/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 460.91.03
Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.93.0
Worked: 2.92
Caused bycafd6b519cShort description of error
On any text input field, on the Python Console, on the text editors, I cannot type any of the characters that need dead keys (I use English International with dead-keys to type English, Spanish, and German).
I cannot, for example even type quotes, which makes Python expressions hard - let alone accents, etc.
This used to work on previous versions of Blender. The latest I found it working on is on a 2.92 release candidate I had somewhere on my hard drive.
Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Expected behaviour: Blender accepts the typed-in characters.
Actual behaviour: Blender ignores the typed-in characters.
Something like this gets printed to the console:
Added subscriber: @GabrielMontagne
#104185 was marked as duplicate of this issue
#103098 was marked as duplicate of this issue
Added subscriber: @iss
Can't reprocude here Unless I misunderstood this report. here é is composed by typing ´+e
Hi @iss , thanks for replying so quickly. I'm attaching a gif that shows (I hope) the problem clearly. Side by side, on the same machine. Please note that I'm using Linux.
Added subscriber: @mano-wii
Maybe it's only reproducible on Linux.
Added subscriber: @lichtwerk
@lichtwerk, can you check?
Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Confirmed'
Can confirm, will check which commit broke this
Blender lost support for dead keys (it seems between 2.92 and 2.93)to Regression: Blender text editor lost support for dead keysAdded subscribers: @Chimp, @PratikPB2123, @cassidy, @mod_moder, @Harley
Added subscriber: @MarioCarvao
Added subscriber: @JulienDuroure
Added subscriber: @Gabriel-Solis
Guys, this issue is now 2 years old. Can we assume it will not be corrected anymore ? Is it difficult to solve ? Or is it a problem of availability of people ? If I decide to take a look, is there any documentation about how Blender manages the keyboard Input ? I have no experience writing code for Blender. Hugs to all.
Is it just me or have I seen the closed version of this report?
It works. do you just need to do a keyboard shortcut?
Note that this problem is specific to Linux. Each platform does its own keyboard input and composition at the Ghost layer. Each one getting input from that OS, doing whatever manipulation is needed, and then sending it to the Blender event loop as a GHOST_EventKey. So this would most likely require a Linux dev with familiarity with keyboard layouts that include dead keys to make changes to blender\intern\ghost\intern\GHOST_SystemSDL.cc and/or blender\intern\ghost\intern\GHOST_SystemWayland.cc
This is still unresolved two years after the report. This does not work even on the LTS version. Could this be prioritized? This is a severe accessibility problem.
As far as I can see Blender never supported dead keys, at least not explicitly. The change referenced (
cafd6b519cseems unlikely to have broken anything related to X11 input too).There is also a report that dead keys don't work in Wayland but do work in X11 see: #113724.
Strange. But, of course, it works on v 2.92 and earlier on the same machine with the same setup. And, well, all the other apps on my OS "respect"/understand the dead keys.
It was not myself who added the "caused by".
It might be helpful to add that this is not a text-area-specific bug but in Blender as a whole. It is now impossible, for example, to type
"etc. on the Python console (making it pretty much unusable), as well as on text Objects.. anywhere.Interesting that the user on #113724 reports that it works for them on X11 (which is what I'm using).
@ideasman42 , that Wayland report -- which said dead keys worked in X11 made me wonder if I had something off with my setup. I hadn't thought about that because the old blender versions do work. But I checked, uninstalled everything ibus and fcitx, and now I have dead keys that work even on the new blender versions.
So, yep, it looks very tricky how that input stack works. From my point of view, though, the issue could be considered a non-issue, as I have it working on a pure X11 solution.
Thanks!