[Bug 3711] New: US international keyboard layout console annoyance

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http://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3711

           Summary: US international keyboard layout console annoyance
           Product: Quake 3
           Version: SVN HEAD
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: Misc
        AssignedTo: zakk at icculus.org
        ReportedBy: meister1500 at hotmail.com
         QAContact: quake3-bugzilla at icculus.org


I have a US keyboard and use the US international keyboard layout. This means
for example if I press: ' and after that: e, it will make an é. Same goes for:
` (same key as ~ but without shift) and e makes è. Because ` is the key for
console, this interferes a little with console behaviour. This has always been
the case, also in idq3. However, ioq3 seems to take it a step further.

Idq3 would just open the console upon pressing ` and input into the console
whatever was the result of ` + whatever you typed after it. For example,
opening console and typing an i, it would result in a weird char as first char
on the console, since ` + i = í. Opening console and typing / would be fine,
since ` + / = / according to the keyboard-layout.

Ioq3 however, totally ignores my first input after opening the console. Opening
console and typing any key after it, results in an open console with nothing in
it. So it seems to disregard the input. If you type something after the ignore,
it works normally again. So I have to type `  /  / to get a slash, instead of
just ` /

I am aware of shift + escape to open the console, but I'd like to be able to
use ` since it's so much faster. Any idea if this is fixable?


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