Tracker issue: Work on UTF-8 support.

[shymega]

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.

[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...

[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.

[coquizen]

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.

[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.

[shymega]

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

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[pfactum]

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

[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...

[shymega]

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

[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?

[perroboc]

Just adding my 2 cents: I'm trying to run this, but by default it looks for info in my user folder (which has an Á):

PS C:\Program Files\Barrier> .\barriers.exe --help
Start the barrier server component.
[...]
If no configuration file pathname is provided then the first of the
following to load successfully sets the configuration:
  C:\Users\Álvaro\AppData\Local\Barrier\barrier.sgc
  C:\ProgramData\Barrier\barrier.sgc

As you can see, it prints Á instead of Á, because:
Á is the same as c3 81 in HEX (https://www.utf8-chartable.de/)
which in DEC is 195 129
which in Extended ASCII is ├ ü (https://www.asciitable.com/)

So, it seems it's not taking every UTF-8 byte into account, diving every 2 byte UTF-8 character into 2 ASCII characters, so maybe the reading of the path is correct, but the saving is wrong? I'll look, but I'm no cpp dev :(

[manngo]

I have just installed 2.4.0-release-3e0d758b. Running between macOS Montery (server) and macOS Catalina (client). Copy & Paste work well enough (though not always on the first attempt). However Emojis such as 🦧👀🐵🙈 do not copy across. Other unicode characters such as 茶 are OK.

Is this the same issue as above?

[shymega]

I don't know, I work on Input Leap now - Barrier I'm not aware of UTF-8 being resolved yet.