[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41124] Some keyboard layouts cannot input characters

[Pantxo Diribarne]

Follow-up Comment #15, bug #41124 (project octave):

Is there any reason to not push the attached patch and close this bug report?


As I explained, the current implementation of the qterminal assumes option is
equivalent to alt (qt incorrectly treats option as AltModifier), which is far
from true: 
* many people need the option key to enter special characters like the ones
mentioned in this bug report.
* when the user presses e.g. option+p, Qt receives AltModifier+pi (the Greek
letter): there is no simple way know what the original character was (here p)
as the special characters mapping is locale dependent.

Some software can handle this issue and use option as Alt (e.g. mac terminal
and emacs) but I guess they all use low level mac specific libraries.

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