[Lazarus] Keys not recognized by Lazarus 1.6 code editor

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Martin Frb wrote:
> On 24/02/2016 13:10, Bo Berglund wrote:
>> I have discovered a strange problem with my Lazarus 1.6 release
>> installation on RPi2 (Raspbian Jessie) concerning keyboard entries.
>>
>> When I connect via VNC from my Windows7 PC I can not enter the
>> characters < or + via the keyboard keys into the Lazarus code editor.
>>
> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=17820

There was an issue in that era that keys like # when the systems were 
set to UK layout weren't getting through. I've not seen that for a 
while, but that could be because even I upgrade my OS and libraries on 
occasion :-)

> I dont know if the issue is in the LCL, or in VNC.
> Apparently the data received from VNC does only occur with VNC. Other 
> app may not have the issue, may simply mean that they do not check this 
> particular part of the data, independent of its correctness

I've definitely seen VNC issues affect (programs written using) Delphi.

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