#2491 Accented characters in text widget, linux

[mgma]

I've observed this problem using an old version of Tk (8.4.7). Maybe it's solved in newer versions, but I couldn't check. I happens in Linux, but not in Windows.

The problem happens when I try to type an accented character like á (this is á in HTML, in case that you cannot see correctly). To try this with an English keyboard, there should be an accent character if you press AltGr+#, for instance.

The problem is the following one. If I do:

> text .t
> pack .t

The accented characters work, and I can type á by pressing first the ´ character, releasing the key, and then typing the a.

But if I pack any other widget afterwards, for instance:

> frame .f
> pack .f

Then the accented characters stop working and I can only type a.

Finally, if I create another text widget:

> text .u
> pack .u

I can only type á in the second text, but the first one still doesn't work.

I've traced the binding for <Key> in the Text class. When I pack only the first text, .t, the binding executes only after I've hit the two keys:

tk::TextInsert .t á

And after I've packed the frame .f, it executes immediately after I hit each key:

tk::TextInsert .t {} <-- when I hit ´
tk::TextInsert .t a <-- when I hit a

[Fibonacci Prower]

Perhaps this is related to bug #1924761.