Chromium doesn't accept some characters

[emersion]

Works: "🐸", "!", ":", "a". Doesn't work: "é", "α", "#".

No idea why.

Workaround: ValveSoftware/gamescope@d09516b

[atx]

Yep. Even worse - it looks like it sometimes works and sometimes does not.
I can get it to work in the address bar by running wtype α; wtype α, which types a single α. Does not seem to work in HTML text fields at all. I am guessing there is some issue in how keymap reloads are handled.

I remember attempting to read through the chromium input handling code last time it came up, but I just could not and gave up... Might either try later again or just implement the workaround.

[emersion]

Someone on Mastodon pointed me to this comment: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard/-/issues/244#note_1237206

Note, the URL bar empties itself when switching the keymap it seems. Other text fields don't.

[emersion]

Okay, found a better workaround: ValveSoftware/gamescope@6764da3

[cizra]

@emersion It's not really obvious how to apply that workaround - does it work? If it does, could you apply it to the repo (any downsides)?

[cjd]

I hit this problem as well and have a slightly different workaround.
Instead of typing directly I put the emoji in the clipboard and then use ctrl+V to paste that
ie:
echo -n "😎" | wl-copy; wtype -M ctrl V -m ctrl

That has worked for me in terminals and in chrome (both in address bar and in text areas)

[dotaxis]

Having an issue where wtype cannot type emojis into Discord or VSCode. This seems related? How can we apply the workaround?