Non-US keyboard doesn't work on Windows Chrome/IE

[pasieronen]

Characters requiring AltGr (e.g. left square bracket = AltGr+8) on Finnish keyboard don't seem to work at all on IE11 or Chrome 36 running on Windows 7. Chrome 36 on Linux does work, and Firefox works both on Windows and Linux.

[pasieronen]

FYI, Chrome 36 on Windows 7 triggers these events when typing AltGr-8 (for left square bracket) on a Finnish keyboard:

keydown: keyCode=17 (Ctrl), altKey=false, ctrlKey=true, metaKey=false
keydown: keyCode=18 (Alt), altKey=true, ctrlKey=true, metaKey=false
keydown: keyCode=56 ("8"), altKey=true, ctrlKey=true, metaKey=false
keypress: keyCode=91 ("["), altKey=true, ctrlKey=true, metaKey=false

IE11 on Windows 7 seems to behave identically.

Then jqconsole.coffee's HandleChar ignores the keypress event, because it has ctrlKey=true...

[pasieronen]

Found this StackOverFlow question with more information:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10657346/detect-alt-gr-alt-graph-modifier-on-key-press

Thus, HandleChar's check should probably be "if @State == STATE_OUTPUT or event.metaKey or (event.ctrlKey and !event.altKey)"

[Arminius]

I can confirm this. I'm using a German keyboard on Chrome 44 and Windows 7. I cannot type '[' (AltGr+8) in the console. It works fine in the editor panel, only the console itself is affected. It also works fine in Firefox.

Please fix this. There are also other projects (I'm thinking specifically of R-Fiddle) using the jqconsole, and they are affected by the same issue.

[ebertmi]

Same bug here on germany keyboard layout. You cannot type in the @ symbol as it requires the Alt Gr key + q.

[AnastasiaDunbar]

Is this going to be fixed?

[ebertmi]

Well, it has not been fixed in 2 years. Either fork the project and apply the patch yourself or use something like xterm.js

[amasad]

Hey @AnastasiaDunbar it hadn't came up recently so forgot about it. I'll take a look soon

[joaomdsc]

Hi Amasad,

I'm facing the same issue with a french keyboard, the js console in repl.it is unusable without the ability to type in brackets (and that's a pity :-). I would really appreciate it if you could do something about it. Many thanks in advance,

João

[AnastasiaDunbar]

I think it's fixed now.