Re: [PATCH] input charset not initialized correctly on Win32

On Tuesday 06 December 2005 01:42, Slaven Rezic wrote:
> Petr Pajas <[email protected]> writes:
> > Hi Nick, All,
> >
> > I found that Windows users of my Tk-804 based app who have Czech
> > keyboard (CS) set as *default* can't input Czech characters into input
> > entries until they switch from CS->EN->CS using the Alt+Shift
> > Windows shortcut (until they do, messy characters appear on the screen
> > instead). After the switching to EN and back everything works fine (it
> > also works fine if EN keyboard layout is the default and the user
> > switches to CZ when the app starts).
> >
> > Going through the win32 sources, I easily identified the problem
> > in pTk/mTk/win/tkWinX.c. The best patch I could manage is attached.
> >
> > Here's what happens: Tk tracks keyboard layout switches by listening to
> > the Win32 WM_INPUTLANGCHANGE event in order to keep its info about the
> > current input encoding up-to-date. The problem is, that it doesn't
> > initialize its internal variables according to the initial layout
> > (probably assuming its always EN).
> >
> > Please have a look at the patch and consider applying it. The patch is
> > against the latest CPAN release (Tk-804.027).
> >
> > Also, does is this file taken from Tcl/Tk? Should I contact those guys
> > too?
>
> Yes and yes.
>
> Regards,
>         Slaven

Ok, thanks. Reported as 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1374119&group_id=12997&atid=312997
(patch against tcl/tk codebase attached to the report).

Cheers,
-- Petr
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