[invalid] 3.7.0 beta1 - username - special character encoding issue

[GunChleoc]

In the options screen, I tried to enter a new username, replacing newbie with ùr. Instead of ù, I got =ù.

System: Windows 7 64-bit.

[softcoder]

Does this bug still occur in beta2? (I am able to enter these Gaelic characters from Linux)

[GunChleoc]

Yes.

I am on a German keyboard, so I press the accent first, then the letter. The = appears as soon as I press the accent key.

The Portuguese keyboard layout has similar problems, \ã instead of ã, ]á instead of á.

So it seems like a general problem with Windows keyboards.

[tomreyn]

I can't reproduce the first on Linux (atibox). No = appears, ù is printed immediately after I hit the u key.

[GunChleoc]

It must be a problem with Windows only then.

[tomreyn]

I agree (I didn't mean to say that it's not an issue just because it works on Linux).

[softcoder]

This is the 'dead key' issue as already discussed in another thread and is an SDL bug on windows

[tomreyn]

Tagging as [invalid] since we can't fix SDL.

Should we file a bug with them, though?