Tracker issue: Work on UTF-8 support. #860

This issue has been migrated from old Barrier Github repository debauchee/barrier#860

Issue created on: 2020-08-31 by @shymega
Issue last updated on: 2021-09-16

Currently, Barrier has limited UTF-8 support, and that has led to issues being reported with various languages being processed wrongly.

We need to work on this. I would like to get it in for the v2.4 release, or earlier.

Commented on: 2020-09-11 by @jsantosdias

So, I am Portuguese and My name is João. I installed Barrier and it never worked because user folder as an ~. I am trying to change user folder name, but it's too dificult... Please change so that barrier can work with those characters...

Commented on: 2020-09-12 by @shymega

Hi, thanks for your comment. You can react to the original post with :+1:, rather than commenting, as that does not add constructive information to the issue.

Thank you.

Commented on: 2021-03-08 by @CaninoDev

Just wanted to further add that this behavior also occurs when pasting from a linux host to a mac osx client (consistently in some apps but not all. Textedit, Firefox, Paste.app seems to process the paste correctly, iMessage however does not.

Commented on: 2021-04-21 by @pfactum

Will this address the fact that I cannot type Ǐǐ (i with caron) and ȷ (dotless j) through barrier, or I should create another issue for this?

I get can't map keycode to key id message in the debug log.

Thanks.

Commented on: 2021-05-30 by @shymega

Presumably that's Unicode? if so, yes, it should resolve that.

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021, at 7:14 AM, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:

Will this address the fact that I cannot type Ǐǐ (i with caron) and ȷ
(dotless j) through barrier, or I should create another issue for this?
Thanks.

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Commented on: 2021-05-31 by @pfactum

Well, yes, those symbols are from the Unicode table. Thanks for the answer.

Commented on: 2021-08-17 by @sgrienen

"Le dollar néo-zélandais ("kiwi") recule de 1,40% à 0,6923 dollar américain mardi en fin d’après-midi, alors que le gouvernement a décrété un confinement de 3 jours dans tout le pays."

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"(AOF) - Le dollar néo-zélandais ("kiwi") recule de 1,40% à 0,6923 dollar américain mardi en fin d’après-midi, alors que le gouvernement a décrété un confinement de 3 jours dans tout le pays."

this is how it looks like when I copy paste from MacOS Big Sur 11.5.1 to Win10 20H2 via Barrier 2.3.3 (PC is server, Mac is client). Don't know if this helps tracking this issue down...

Commented on: 2021-08-17 by @shymega

This does help, as it gives an example of UTF-8 behaviour. Thank you! 🙌🏻

Commented on: 2021-09-16 by @Unknown-Guy

Maybe I am missing something, but suspect after #910 got merged, basically all my UTF-8 issues with dead key went away. My guess is most of the people does not use the builds from master, so maybe it is time for proper release?