Issue Report : Cant' use special characters in the overlay

[Freyja, The Witch...]

Loaded World of Goo, opened the overlay and when was typing in chat windows or web browser, special characters don't appear…

Characters like é à ç … ù ² et cetera…
These characters works fine on Steam when I not play…

(ps: World of Goo is the only game working for the moment, i can't test on other game…)

[johndrinkwater [🐧 🎮]]

Can reproduce in the overlay in Trine 2, etc, so its global.
Wow, I can’t even type £ (shift+3) on my en-gb layout, didnt notice that earlier.

[Frank]

Thanks! This issue has been assigned tracking ID 93722.

[Mr. Hoten]

Can you folks write back here with more OS information?

I need to know
- operating system (Windows, Linux, etc)
- version / distro
- your default input language
- The language you're trying to type in

Thanks!

[Mr. Hoten]

Oh — it would also be helpful to know if you are in the Big Picture Mode overlay or the "regular" overlay. Thanks.

[Freyja, The Witch...]

I'm on Ubuntu 12.10 64Bits… (no problem with Windows 7…)
With the regular overlay special characters don't appear at all, with Big Picture overlay I obtain this : http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1353103794.png
On this image I only typing the "é" character one time…

My system language is in the locale en_US.UTF-8 while my keyboard layout is "French (alternative)"…

[Flaming Sapz]

I can also confirm this. Using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and the en-GB.UTF-8. Attempting the pound sign in the overlay does not work.

[Mr. Hoten]

Great, thanks for the info.

[johndrinkwater [🐧 🎮]]

This is working for characters I was having issues with, could everyone confirm its fixed for them?

[Freyja, The Witch...]

It's fixed for me too…!
Thanks… :)

[Dan Hibiki]

I am unable to type characters with accent on the overlay within TF2. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with English (US, alternative international) layout and typing in portuguese. I'm not using Big Picture mode. Characters like é, á, í, ã are not shown at all on the overlay but they work fine outside of it.

Special characters do not even work in normal chat here, nor in the built-in browser. I have my locale set up to en_GB, but I do have a German keyboard and X is set up properly to use it. However, if I hit one of the German umlaut keys, no character appears. Displaying umlauts in messags I get from friends works fine.