G1 Keyboard can't sent uppercase or special characters

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Trying to send any text using either a shift key or the alt key results
in either the wrong key being sent or nothing at all.
2. It seems that pressing either shift key and a letter results in a
ctrl+letter being sent instead of a uppercase character.
3. Pressing the alt key and the special character key results in nothing
being sent.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The expected output is to see an uppercase character or a special character
such as |,*,_,%, etcetera.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
20100129

Please provide any additional information below.
Since none of the special keys, any of these characters that need to be
sent, has to be through the "Send Text" Menu option.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by christop...@gmail.com on 14 Mar 2010 at 8:24

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I have a G1 and sending shifted characters or alt characters always works fine 
for
me.  What VNC server are you using?

Original comment by googlec...@antlersoft.com on 16 Mar 2010 at 9:32

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I'm wondering if I have a corrupt install.  Is there some remnant of code that 
needs
to be deleted after install?  I've rooted the phone so I can clean out what 
needs to
be done.  I've tried reinstalling both from the market and this side.  It just 
not
appear to work correctly.  If I VNC from another desktop, everything goes 
through
fine.  I'm using TightVNCServer from the phone itself running inside of the 
Debian
chroot.

Original comment by christop...@gmail.com on 19 Mar 2010 at 12:09

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Not a corrupt install--

I'm now seeing the same problem with shifted characters with the Linux TightVNC
server (not with special characters though, they seem to go fine).  Clearly some
weird interaction between the way the phone is sending keystrokes and the way 
that
server is interpreting keystrokes.

This might be something I can fix...

Original comment by googlec...@antlersoft.com on 22 Mar 2010 at 5:55

• Changed state: Accepted

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The shifted characters is what first started to have problems and then after a 
couple
of hours, I couldn't send ALT characters either.  I thought I was loosing my 
mind as
I thought I had sent ALT characters as well in the beginning.  But I attributed 
this
to myself for staying up so late getting Debian working and that I was probably 
not
remembering correctly.  :)

Original comment by christop...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2010 at 9:36

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I'm using the same configuration (TightVNC server on Debian chroot on the phone 
itself) and, surprise, encounter the same problems. Shift+Key sends Ctrl+Key, 
Alt+Key 
sends Ctrl + the correct special character resolved by Alt.

Original comment by victorha...@gmail.com on 14 May 2010 at 5:58

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I am using TightVNC 1.2.8. on Windows 2000 and 2003 servers, and I am having a 
problem using the keyboard on the T-Mobile G2 with Android 2.2 and AndroidVNC 
0.4.7 sending capitol letters, numbers or special characters via the shift and 
alt keys.  In my case, using the alt and shift keys has no effect on the output.

Original comment by kshe...@gmail.com on 22 Dec 2010 at 10:06