Non-English text & compose key about fyne HOT 8 CLOSED

I think the first issue you see is because copy-paste is not handled correctly, we need to look into that.

Unicode should be supported but bidirectional probably not - this will need work also. The unicode support should be correct in the default driver - but perhaps not with the new GL based one.

I need to look more into the compose key - I am not sure if it's an input or a display issue yet.
Thanks!

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OK, I see now there is a lot to handle here.
Firstly, æ and ™ should now be working - they render correctly. Possibly there is still an issue with the compose key? If so can you please provide a test case or reproduction steps for someone with an English keyboard?

The non-english text issue is perhaps going to be complicated. I wonder if we can ship a better default font? Or is switching fonts the only "right" way to do this?

(the hebrew and arabic are not working with the replacement text handling)

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I have a local patch that allows setting fonts, which is a thing we should do... but it brought more questions for me. When using a Hebrew font, for example, it does not contain the English text - which breaks the English display...

Does anyone know how we can "multiplex" these - to see if a font has a glyph and fallback (to builtin) if it does not?

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Setting your language font using FYNE_FONT should now improve the situation.
It does not add RTL support but it should satisfy part 1 of this bug.
We will be able to make a better user experience by adding some fyne_config app in the future where fonts could be selected visually or language chosen etc...

Added in change 7d2d312

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With the updated font handling I think we are getting closer.
Compose key is working on my Arch Linux system (Shift + Alt-Gr -> ~ -> a -> ã).
If it is not working for your system can you open a new issue with the details please?

I reckon that the contents of this are now either resolved or created in more specific issues.
I'm closing this so we can track the remaining work separately.

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Ubuntu 20.10
Accented greek characters (greek keyboard,semi-colon+vowel) do not appear at all.
Thank you for your wonderful work.

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It's possible the letters are not in our font, can you confirm which were not appearing.
If you paste them in instead of typing them does it work?

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I was able to get Hebrew to work

https://github.com/thebenwaters/ynaboosh-desktop/blob/b9f8f81c1806e631dca17df62a1d41acb188dee7/pkg/internal/ynaboosh/institutions/cal.go#L33

Currently I load a custom font (Noto Hebrew) and then detect Hebrew with regex, and reverse runes, but if it's mixed with english, I haven't separated it out

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