green-green-avk / AnotherTerm

Local PTY, USB and Bluetooth serial ports, SSH and Telnet terminal client for Android. Xwayland support (in dev only).
https://green-green-avk.github.io/AnotherTerm-docs/
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physical keyboard: Broken quotes characters #66

Open gh-ix opened 3 months ago

gh-ix commented 3 months ago

Hello, thanks a lot for this great Android app, which I use as a SSH client only. There's one severe show stopper currently - two actually, but the broken physical keyboard support makes it literally unusable for me.

I use it on a pixel tablet, with a physical BT keyborad with US international layout. The keyboard works in every other Android App perfectly well. In AnotherTerm, it seems some kind of accent-key-mode gets activated. I found no way to type »'» or »"« e.g.!

All 'accent' keys like »~«, »^«, »'» and »"« unconditionally produce an accented letter if the subsequent alpha-key does have a corresponding character (if not, nothing is printed).

I never observed that keyboard behavior before on Android. It's well known on Windows, but there's the possibility to hit the space key after an accent key, resulting in the literal character. That trick doesn't work in AnotherTerm - found no other trick.

Please make that keyboard-mode-switch optional at least - if needed at all. I guess there's rarely any terminal application where accent-characters are required - if so, single-quotes and double quotes are much more important I guess ;-)

Thanks!