--- a/dwt/widgets/Widget.d	Sun Mar 02 18:09:32 2008 +0100
+++ b/dwt/widgets/Widget.d	Sun Mar 02 18:12:27 2008 +0100
@@ -1283,12 +1283,15 @@
     }
     while (index < chars.length) {
         Event event = new Event ();
-        if (keyEvent !is null && chars.length <= 1) {
+        //PORTING take care of utf8
+        if (keyEvent !is null && chars.codepointCount() <= 1) {
             setKeyState (event, keyEvent);
         } else {
             setInputState (event, state);
         }
-        event.character = chars [index];
+        //PORTING take care of utf8
+        int incr;
+        event.character = firstCodePoint( chars [index..$], incr );
         sendEvent (type, event);
 
         /*
@@ -1301,8 +1304,15 @@
             if (ptr !is null) OS.gdk_event_free (ptr);
             return null;
         }
-        if (event.doit) chars [count++] = chars [index];
-        index++;
+
+        //PORTING take care of utf8
+        if (event.doit) {
+            for( int i = 0; i < incr; i++ ){
+                chars [count+i] = chars [index+i];
+            }
+            count+=incr;
+        }
+        index+=incr;
     }
     if (ptr !is null) OS.gdk_event_free (ptr);
     if (count is 0) return null;