[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Bluetooth keyboard update

[From: Tomas Junnonen]

ext Aaron Levinson wrote:
> Right.  My reference to the "BT keyboard input method" was incorrect,
> because this GTK input method does not exist.  It appears, from
> information on the BT keyboard plugin homepage, that when the plugin is
> used, GTK switches to the xim input plugin.  It is unclear what causes
> this switch to occur because I could find no mention of "xim" in the
> source code for the plugin, and a cursory examination of the GTK source
> code didn't turn up anything.  Maybe there are issues with xim.

The input method is changed when you plug in the keyboard by the ke-recv 
daemon on the device.

Xim, which is just another gtk input method, is the culprit filtering 
out the multibyte characters. It seems to want to perform a conversion 
from some default charset to utf-8 and fails. I can confirm that if you 
use a less clever input method, or modify xim to just commit the keys 
directly, you do in fact get multibyte characters in stock GTK widgets. 
That means the problem is fixable, although not necessarily in a clean 
way by simply installing an application installer package such as the 
Bluetooth plugin.

Regards,
Tomas