HowTo: user input with special chars (é,ä,ß,...)

[Lt. Smash]

hey everyone!

I have a simple question:
I want to make a userinput box where I can write in text with special characters (ascii  128-256).
The behavior of normal textboxes is that they don't allow me to write f.e. "Straße" (german for 'street').
So how can I code that?
Does AGS recognize key presses from ascii >128 at all? If not this would be a suggestion for a future version.

ty for helpful answers.

[JpSoft]

I had this same trouble in a game im working right now, and what i did was developed a little module to allow read the keyboard properly (I needed many spanish characters, like ñ,é,í...) The module works perfect and actually allows some things AGS do not support when using textboxes or text inputs.

I will make it public, but im still working in other games and modules and i dont know when it will be released. You can read some details here.

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=35167.0

Jp