Tk entry box is broken

[Daniel O'Connor]

> On 3 Sep 2018, at 14:36, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
> We use Tcl/Tk on FreeBSD for various applications and I've started modernising our stack (from Tcl 8.4) and I am seeing a very weird issue where Tk entry boxes only accept the character 'a'(!) but only when using XQuartz(!!). ie on the local console it works fine, but if I SSH in from my laptop the odd issue happens.
> 
> This works fine on our existing 9.x era stuff using Tcl/Tk 8.4. I tried Tk 8.5, 8.6 and 8.7 with the same result.

I tried this on a Linux (Ubuntu) VM and it behaves the same so I guess it's possibly an XQuartz bug, although if anyone has some ideas I'd be most grateful..

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