Caret symbol ( ^ ) no longer works in PowerShell Core

[Snaptags]

Mod3 + t no longer prints a ^ in PowerShell Core (but works in any other application)

Last version where it did work was v0.5.2.

(PowerShell 7.2.0, Windows 10)

[MaxGyver83]

Thanks for your feedback. I'll check it.

[MaxGyver83]

I have installed PowerShell 7.2.0 and I can reproduce the issue. It looks like this issue was introduced by commit 51fdd3a which fixed #26 (Backtick and caret insert just a space (only in Neovim)).
When I just undo this change, the caret will be broken in Neovim again. This means, I'll have to investigate how to make the caret work both in in Neovim and PowerShell Core.

[Snaptags]

Other characters on Layer 3 seem to be affected, too:
… (Q)
ſ (ü)
̷ (*)

` (B)

And the entire number row ¹²³›‹ ¢¥‚‘’—

(But all of those are not really important in a shell, the missing ^ is bad because of HEAD^ vs HEAD~1 in git :-)

[MaxGyver83]

The characters that don't work are those sent as Unicode characters. The alternative is emulating the key press (combination) that emits the desired character usually. But that's only possible if that character is available in the system keyboard layout (QWERTZ). We can emit a caret and backtick by sending the corresponding dead keys followed by a space. But there is no workaround for …, ſ, ̷ and so on (except using an external tool like WinCompose but this didn't work either in a quick test).

I have added a new option called preferDeadKeyPlusSpace in commit bc1236e. This should make caret and backtick work in PowerShell Core 7.2. Would you mind testing it?

neo-llkh.zip

Just set preferDeadKeyPlusSpace=1 in your settings.ini or add it as command line parameter.

[Snaptags]

Thanks, I can confirm the change (and enabling the new option) fixes dead keys in PowerShell. BUT it also breaks my "ä" key, it no longer prints "y" :(

[MaxGyver83]

Oh, that's bad! And strange. Thanks for testing. I'll check again.

[MaxGyver83]

You are right! The build I attached contained some uncommitted changes which I didn't want to include. (The "ä" is another shift key in that build.)

Could you try again with this version?
neo-llkh.zip

[Snaptags]

That's much better, thanks :-)

[MaxGyver83]

Good to hear! I'll create a new release.