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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-95471

Unable to compose characters on Mac OS in text edits

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    • macOS
    • 853c350cca4e00d2f890672ad8144a55ad75541e (qt/qtbase/dev) bd9cadefbc29abe7c0bb261d1f8933c5c3c39512 (qt/qtbase/6.2) 225105185d8b5f047a3986562876bfe5ce7c8e3a (qt/qtbase/6.1)

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      In a QPlainText or a QLineEdit I am unable to compose the character ü by pressing ALT + u (which normally gives me only the dots ¨, highlighted yellow) followed by u.

      Instead, pressing ALT + u yields nothing and the next keypress is swallowed.

      On a debug console of my application I see the following:

       qt.qpa.keymapper: Mismatch between Cocoa '\u00a8' and Carbon '\x0' for virtual key 32 with QFlags<Qt::KeyboardModifier>(AltModifier)
      

      Please let me know if you need more information about my environment.

      I am on Mac OS Big Sur 11.5.1 on a Apple M1, but building for x86_64, and I am using Qt 6.2.0 (beta) downloaded and installed via installer on 31.07.2021.

      I found this old bug report, but is was closed with no solution: QTCREATORBUG-12372

      I dug around a bit more and found the corresponding source file on the 6.2 branch of qtbase: https://github.com/qt/qtbase/blob/fe83bc697f09da5eaeeb9179f2dd5abd9ff2f91d/src/gui/platform/darwin/qapplekeymapper.mm#L536

      I have no idea, why carbon and cocoa are contradicting each other, and if the composition should not happen somewhat before all the Qt event handling?

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