Text input with an foreign keyboard does not work properly

Hi all,

I'm using Torque 1.3 on a Linux system with
an AZERTY keyboard (french keyboard). The problem
I have occurs as well with most of European keyboards
like QWERTZ and so on. It does not happen on Windows,
though dead keys are not managed properly on Windows.

I can't type in accented letters (like a ´ in html). Can't
show here example because the forum eats these letters.

Also most of the keyboard keys are filtered. I can roughly enter
only a-z A-Z + some signs.

Looking at Torque C++ code I've seen that torque maps
SDL 8 bits key codes to internal codes. Unicode information
is ignored. The translation seems
to be borked somewhere.

I can display these chars in the GUI editor if I copy&paste them,
so there must be in the font.

Finally, my questions :

-Is it a known problem and if yes, is there a fix for it?
-Looking at the code I assume that Torque GUI font is
8 bit only:
-where is it located?
-How to get the charset in it?

With these infos I think I can hack the engine with another
translation table and SDL capabilities. But of course only if
this is not fixed yet.

Any help/info is welcome.

Pascal