diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 42ae0cb..190fcf0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Similar to [dwm-flexipatch](https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch) this st 0.9 (68d1ad9, 2022-10-04) project has a different take on st patching. It uses preprocessor directives to decide whether or not to include a patch during build time. Essentially this means that this build, for better or worse, contains both the patched _and_ the original code. The aim being that you can select which patches to include and the build will contain that code and nothing more.
+Similar to [dwm-flexipatch](https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch) this st 0.9 (e5e9598, 2022-10-25) project has a different take on st patching. It uses preprocessor directives to decide whether or not to include a patch during build time. Essentially this means that this build, for better or worse, contains both the patched _and_ the original code. The aim being that you can select which patches to include and the build will contain that code and nothing more.
 
 For example to include the `alpha` patch then you would only need to flip this setting from 0 to 1 in [patches.h](https://github.com/bakkeby/st-flexipatch/blob/master/patches.def.h):
 ```c
diff --git a/x.c b/x.c
index 7f42e4b..dc1a229 100644
--- a/x.c
+++ b/x.c
@@ -3101,7 +3101,7 @@ void
 kpress(XEvent *ev)
 {
 	XKeyEvent *e = &ev->xkey;
-	KeySym ksym;
+	KeySym ksym = NoSymbol;
 	char buf[64], *customkey;
 	int len, screen;
 	Rune c;
@@ -3136,10 +3136,13 @@ kpress(XEvent *ev)
 	if (IS_SET(MODE_KBDLOCK))
 		return;
 
-	if (xw.ime.xic)
+	if (xw.ime.xic) {
 		len = XmbLookupString(xw.ime.xic, e, buf, sizeof buf, &ksym, &status);
-	else
+		if (status == XBufferOverflow)
+			return;
+	} else {
 		len = XLookupString(e, buf, sizeof buf, &ksym, NULL);
+	}
 	#if KEYBOARDSELECT_PATCH
 	if ( IS_SET(MODE_KBDSELECT) ) {
 		if ( match(XK_NO_MOD, e->state) ||