Keystrokes involving dead keys do not work

[mkromberg]

Describe the issue you are having

Keystrokes which require the prefix key to be followed by a dead key like ^ to produce ⍬ or ¨ to produce → do not work. The desired key briefly appears, but at the next keystroke it disappears and is replaced by the symbol on the dead key.

Did you connect to an already running interpreter or start the interpreter from RIDE?

Launch Dyalog v17.0 "Beta 1" on a Danish Mac.

How do you reproduce the issue?

On a Danish Mac, type <^, see the ⍬, and then see it revert to ^ at the next keystroke.

Paste the contents of Help → About (Shift+F1)

IDE 4.1.3253, Interpreter 17.0.33034

[abrudz]

Does this happen even if the next keystroke is a space?

[mkromberg]

Yes - if the next keystroke is something that actually combines with the dead key then you get î or ü (etc).

[e9gille]

Just tested this on a UK WinOS with Danish keyboard layout in RIDE and Swedish keyboard input language in OS (so I'm not sure how much use this is) but prefix+dead key+space seems to work...

I know dead keys are handled differently on Mac. I'll see what I can do.

[mkromberg]

Yup, I can also confirm it works for me under Danish Windows.

[e9gille]

done some work on this. Dead keys are problematic, but with the latest changes you should be able to use them. To complete the sequence you can hit space, eg prefix+dead key+space or prefix+Shift+dead key+space

If you follow the dead key with something it can complete you end up with prefix followed by the completed character: prefix+diaresis+a => prefix+ä

This has been tested on mac and win, will need to check linux.

[mkromberg]

Will test it when I get a new Mac build. The behaviour that you describe seems to be "correct".

[e9gille]

@mkromberg can we close this one?

[mkromberg]

Works fine with Dyalog 17.0.33055 / IDE 4.1.3271 on Mortens Danish MacBook Air.