[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8195675: Call to insertText with single character from custom Input Method ignored [v2]

[Steven Loomis]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 20:30:47 GMT, Steven Loomis <srl at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi all,
>> 
>> This pull request contains a backport of commit b8f2ec90 from the openjdk/jdk repository.
>> 
>> The commit being backported was authored by Steven Loomis on 28 May 2024 and was reviewed by Phil Race.
>> PR was https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/17921
>> 
>> Thanks
>
> Steven Loomis has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   8195675: partial backport of 8214578 to add kbdLayout
>   
>   - This change turned out to depend on 8214578
>   - Backport of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/0b0a33e4c1a5d3f54f733767796cd7e612c4d93d for the kbdLayout
>   - also see https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/02bbbb41857c8ba3c56b1c1670a7e72d8264658d

Oh, actually it does work! I just needed to follow instructions for the keyboard and restart first.

Example of jEdit with the fix:

<img width="220" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b96eea20-228c-4c0d-889c-d620eba96048">

Without the fix: 

<img width="136" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/178177f3-4dfd-4900-8ba5-565efbf76db8">


( jEdit 5.2pre1, typing `ji` and `naan` and `kala` )

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/595#issuecomment-2438756696