No accuentuated key with french keyboard

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I am using firefox 3.0.10 under ubuntu 9.04 64 bits edition. When I connect
to a shellinabox running on a computer with utf8 default encoding (both the
client and the server in fact), the display of the characters is correct,
but I can't enter any accentuated key with my french azerty keyboard.

Particularly, on the first row of keys (where the numbers are on a US
keyboard), the key '2' is supposed to give the letter 'é' (the number '2'
is obtained by pressing shift+the key). But when I press this key, nothing
happens (no character appears on the screen, and the state of the software
seems not to change as any other key pressed after will function normally).

The same thing happen (that is, nothing) when pressing other non-ASCII key
(e.g. number '7' which correspond to the character 'è' or '9' or '0' (which
are labelled 'ç' and 'à' on my keyboard, and some other keys like 'ù' which
sits to column right of 'L').

With firefox 3.0.10 under windows, there is no problem.

As I am compiling shellinaboxd from source, I can help with the debugging.
I tried to implement some debuging printout in "VT100.prototype.handleKey",
but I know no javascript, so I was unsuccessful. Tell me if there is
something I can do to help find the origin of the problem.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mke...@gmail.com on 21 May 2009 at 10:04

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I made same changes in revision 120 (in SVN) that improve support for entering
non-ASCII characters. Can you please re-open this issue if those changes do not 
fix
the bug. As I am not particularly familiar with French keyboards, there is only
limited testing that I can do here.

Original comment by zod...@gmail.com on 23 May 2009 at 5:57

• Changed state: Fixed

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I tested revision 122 and this bug is fixed.

Thank you.

Original comment by mke...@gmail.com on 25 May 2009 at 11:12

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HI…

I'm using Safari Version 7.0.1 (9537.73.11) on OS X 10.9 and shell in a box 
will indeed not display characters accessible with ALT.  That's kinda fatal 
because both the pipe |, backslash \ and at-Sign @ , not to mention []{} are 
only accessible with ALT on a German keyboard. 

Having the on-screen keyboard alleviates the problem, though, but a real 
solution would be appreciated. :-)

Original comment by peterbru...@googlemail.com on 10 Feb 2014 at 4:35

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up !

Original comment by trash.an...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2015 at 11:30

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Hi, 

I think we have these changes fixed in our fork on github: 
https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox

Please see this commit: 
https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox/commit/1dd42d66c2f7d98d3273ca5fdde655
2d04049406

Bye :)

Original comment by luka.kra...@gmail.com on 14 Mar 2015 at 11:41