TextInput - Special characters in macOS

Marcos92 · January 4, 2017, 10:56am

TextInput works well in Windows but on Mac it won’t write special characters like ã, ã, â, etc. Is there any workaround to solve this issue? HTML5 target.

singmajesty · January 5, 2017, 9:10pm

Here is where text input is handled currently on HTML5:

github.com

openfl/lime/blob/develop/lime/_backend/html5/HTML5Window.hx#L317


		
		if (enableTextEvents) {
			
			Timer.delay (function () { textInput.focus (); }, 20);
			
		}
		
	}
	
	
	private function handleFullscreenEvent (event:Dynamic):Void {
		
		var fullscreenElement = untyped (document.fullscreenElement || document.mozFullScreenElement || document.webkitFullscreenElement || document.msFullscreenElement);
		
		if (fullscreenElement != null) {
			
			isFullscreen = true;
			parent.__fullscreen = true;
			
			if (requestedFullscreen) {

It might be worth adding a trace message to see if the correct values are coming in. Perhaps the input is working, but the UTF-8 values are getting lost somewhere later?