This is the first attempt to correct the bug with diacritics (see Mot…

…tie#79).

Note that the solution has not been fully tested and only works for charaters entered from the physical keyboard,
not the virtual one by clicking on the keys.

A new option keyboard.deadkeys has been added (see the first qwerty keyboard in demo.js). the option useCombos needs
to be set to false.

demo/demo.js

@@ -7,7 +7,51 @@ jQuery(function($) {
 	// QWERTY Text Input
 	// The bottom of this file is where the autocomplete extension is added
 	// ********************
-	$('.qwerty:first').keyboard({ layout: 'qwerty' });
+	$('.qwerty:first').keyboard({
+	   layout : 'qwerty',
+	   useCombos : false,
+	   deadKeys : {
+	      '^' : {
+	         a : "[â]",
+	         e : "[ê]",
+	         i : "[î]",
+	         o : "[ô]",
+	         u : "[û]",
+	         A : "[Â]",
+	         E : "[Ê]",
+	         I : "[Î]",
+	         O : "[Ô]",
+	         U : "[Û"
+
+	      },
+	      '`' : {
+	         a : "[à]",
+	         e : "[è]",
+	         u : "[ù]",
+	         A : "[À]",
+	         E : "[È]",
+	         U : "[Ù"
+
+	      },
+	      '"' : {
+	         e : "[ë]",
+	         i : "[ï]",
+	         u : "[ü]",
+		      E : "[Ë]",
+		      I : "[Ï]",
+		      U : "[Ü]"
+
+	      },
+	      "'" : {
+		      e : "[é]",
+		      E : "[É]"
+	      },
+	      "," : {
+		      c : "[ç]",
+		      C : "[Ç]"
+	      }
+	   },
+	});
 
 	// QWERTY Password
 	// ********************

js/jquery.keyboard.js

@@ -99,6 +99,47 @@ CSS:
 $.keyboard = function(el, options){
 	var base = this, o;
 
+	function isDeadKey(charStr) {
+		return o.deadKeys && o.deadKeys.hasOwnProperty(charStr);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Return:
+	 * - the parameter 'charStr' if no dead key has been previously pressed.
+	 * - the dead key previously pressed if charStr is 'space' or a dead key.
+	 * - a new character if a dead key has just been previously pressed and a mapping exists for charStr (option keyboard.deadkeys).
+	 * - the empty string if charStr is a dead key.
+	 */
+		function getCharModifiedByDeadKey(charStr) {
+			var newCharStr = '';
+
+			if (base.lastDeadKeyStr == '') {
+				if (isDeadKey(charStr)) {
+					newCharStr = '';
+					base.lastDeadKeyStr = charStr;
+				} else {
+					newCharStr = charStr;
+				}
+			} else {
+				if (isDeadKey(charStr)) {
+					newCharStr = base.lastDeadKeyStr;
+					base.lastDeadKeyStr = charStr;
+				} else {
+					if (charStr == ' ') {
+						newCharStr = base.lastDeadKeyStr;
+					} else {
+						newCharStr = o.deadKeys[base.lastDeadKeyStr][charStr];
+						if (typeof newCharStr === 'undefined') {
+							newCharStr = base.lastDeadKeyStr + charStr;
+						}
+					}
+					base.lastDeadKeyStr = '';
+				}
+			}
+			return newCharStr;
+		}
+
+
 	// Access to jQuery and DOM versions of element
 	base.$el = $(el);
 	base.el = el;
@@ -136,6 +177,8 @@ $.keyboard = function(el, options){
 
 		base.temp = [ '', 0, 0 ]; // used when building the keyboard - [keyset element, row, index]
 
+		base.lastDeadKeyStr = ''; // The last dead key entered to take into account, '' for none.
+
 		// Bind events
 		$.each('initialized visible change hidden canceled accepted beforeClose'.split(' '), function(i,f){
 			if ($.isFunction(o[f])){
@@ -305,7 +348,9 @@ $.keyboard = function(el, options){
 		if (o.enterNavigation) { base.alwaysAllowed.push(13); } // add enter to allowed keys
 		base.$preview
 			.bind('keypress.keyboard', function(e){
+
 				var k = String.fromCharCode(e.charCode || e.which);
+
 				if (base.checkCaret) { base.lastCaret = base.$preview.caret(); }
 
 				// update caps lock - can only do this while typing =(
@@ -329,6 +374,16 @@ $.keyboard = function(el, options){
 						e.preventDefault();
 					}
 				}
+				var charWithDeadKey = getCharModifiedByDeadKey(k);
+				if (charWithDeadKey == '') {
+					e.preventDefault();
+					return;
+				}
+				else if (charWithDeadKey != k) {
+					base.insertText( charWithDeadKey );
+					e.preventDefault();
+				}
+
 				base.checkMaxLength();
 
 			})