Keeweb: Auto-type with special characters not working on Mac

[ericbn]

Using Mac OS X 10.11.5.

I verified how the code creates an Applescript and spanws the execution of osascript with it. From what I checked, I got different results depending on the Input Source enabled on my OS.

This is a test script I created:

tell application "System Events"
keystroke "¼"
keystroke "Î"
keystroke "©"
keystroke "~"
keystroke "{"
keystroke "*"
keystroke "!"
keystroke "+"
keystroke "¢"
keystroke "f"
keystroke "4"
end tell

This is the result I got by running it having three different Input Sources selected:

• U.S.: aΩ~{*!+¢f4
• Spanish - ISO: aa©~{*!+¢f4
• Brazilian - ABNT2: ¼a©~{*!+¢f4

Expected: ¼Î©~{*!+¢f4. Actually none of them got it right. :- (

Plus, we have to consider that the Input Source affects how an accented character is typed. In U.S. we would type Î as Alt+i, I. In Spanish - ISO or Brazilian - ABNT2 we would type it as ^, I. Maybe if we avoid using keystroke...

[ericbn]

Also, when Spanish - ISO or Brazilian - ABNT2 are enabled, a password like ^A~A´A gets auto-typed as ÂÃÁ (and U.S. actually gave me ^A~AÁ). You can use http://keepass.info/help/kb/testform.html to check. I'd consider using copy-paste for non-alphanumeric characters as a solution.

[antelle]

windows: ^ disappears, other characters are working
linux: some characters are either skipped, or typed incorrectly
So:

• ^ and other modifiers must be escaped
• for non-ascii characters, it's better to use copy-paste.

[antelle]

Status Update

• mac generation has been switched to a native app and it works with different layouts
  
  
  
  • app size is huge, Swift is generating bloated executables, I'll rewrite it in Objective C but now it's working, and that's awesome
  
  
• linux is now sending xdotool key U${code} instead of type ${text} and seems to work with different layouts
  
  
  
  • there's a bug with latin1-supplement characters, e.g. Á is typed as â but this seems to be a bug of xdotool because it cannot type capital character by its name: xdotool key Aacute prints á. This may be fixed in future, now we'll stick to xdotool on linux
  
  
• windows, not so good here:
  
  
  
  • there's no standard method to simulate unicode user input (MSDN says: '_If your application is intended for international use with a variety of keyboards, the use of Send could yield unpredictable results and should be avoided_' but doesn't offer anything else), some keys cannot be sent even in English layout, needs hacking
  
  

Tested this on string !@#$%^&*()_+-={}[]:";'<>?,./йух^A~A´AÂÃÁaΩ~*!+¢f4 in English, Spanish - ISO, Brazilian - ABNT2 and Cyrillic layouts.

[antelle]

Current status

• mac helper has been re-implemented and now it's 70KB, working with all layouts 🌟
• windows switched to InputSimulator library, working with all layouts 🎉
• linux found more errors in some exotic characters, but we'll leave it as is for this release 😶