diff --git a/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/ImGuiController.cs b/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/ImGuiController.cs
index 69f2f80..0c03fbd 100644
--- a/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/ImGuiController.cs
+++ b/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/ImGuiController.cs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ public partial class ImGuiController : Node
     public static ImGuiController Instance { get; private set; } = null!;
     private ImGuiControllerHelper _helper = null!;
     public Node Signaler { get; private set; } = null!;
+    private readonly StringName _signalName = "imgui_layout";
 
     private sealed partial class ImGuiControllerHelper : Node
     {
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ public override void _ExitTree()
 
     public override void _Process(double delta)
     {
-        Signaler.EmitSignal("imgui_layout");
+        Signaler.EmitSignal(_signalName);
         Internal.State.Instance.Render();
         Internal.State.Instance.InProcessFrame = false;
     }
diff --git a/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/ImGuiGD.cs b/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/ImGuiGD.cs
index 3a2c6b2..dc4727f 100644
--- a/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/ImGuiGD.cs
+++ b/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/ImGuiGD.cs
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 #if GODOT_PC
 #nullable enable
 using Godot;
-using ImGuiGodot.Internal;
 using System;
 
 namespace ImGuiGodot;
 
 public static class ImGuiGD
 {
-    private static readonly IBackend _backend;
+    private static readonly Internal.IBackend _backend;
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Deadzone for all axes
@@ -44,7 +43,9 @@ public static bool Visible
 
     static ImGuiGD()
     {
-        _backend = ClassDB.ClassExists("ImGuiGD") ? new BackendNative() : new BackendNet();
+        _backend = ClassDB.ClassExists("ImGuiGD")
+            ? new Internal.BackendNative()
+            : new Internal.BackendNet();
     }
 
     public static IntPtr BindTexture(Texture2D tex)
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ public static void SetMainViewport(Viewport vp)
     /// </summary>
     public static bool ToolInit()
     {
-        if (_backend is BackendNative nbe)
+        if (_backend is Internal.BackendNative nbe)
         {
             nbe.ToolInit();
             return true;
diff --git a/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/Internal/Input.cs b/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/Internal/Input.cs
index 3ad67c7..668081a 100644
--- a/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/Internal/Input.cs
+++ b/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/Internal/Input.cs
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ internal class Input
     private Vector2 _mouseWheel = Vector2.Zero;
     private ImGuiMouseCursor _currentCursor = ImGuiMouseCursor.None;
     private readonly bool _hasMouse = DisplayServer.HasFeature(DisplayServer.Feature.Mouse);
+    private bool _takingTextInput = false;
 
     protected virtual void UpdateMousePos(ImGuiIOPtr io)
     {
@@ -140,6 +141,15 @@ protected bool HandleEvent(InputEvent evt)
         var io = ImGui.GetIO();
         bool consumed = false;
 
+        if (io.WantTextInput && !_takingTextInput)
+        {
+            // avoid IME issues if a text input control was focused
+            State.Instance.Layer.GetViewport().GuiReleaseFocus();
+
+            // TODO: show virtual keyboard?
+        }
+        _takingTextInput = io.WantTextInput;
+
         if (evt is InputEventMouseMotion mm)
         {
             consumed = io.WantCaptureMouse;
@@ -184,15 +194,19 @@ protected bool HandleEvent(InputEvent evt)
         {
             UpdateKeyMods(io);
             ImGuiKey igk = ConvertKey(k.Keycode);
+            bool pressed = k.Pressed;
+            long unicode = k.Unicode;
+
             if (igk != ImGuiKey.None)
             {
-                io.AddKeyEvent(igk, k.Pressed);
+                io.AddKeyEvent(igk, pressed);
+            }
 
-                if (k.Pressed && k.Unicode != 0 && io.WantTextInput)
-                {
-                    io.AddInputCharacter((uint)k.Unicode);
-                }
+            if (pressed && unicode != 0 && io.WantTextInput)
+            {
+                io.AddInputCharacterUTF16((ushort)unicode);
             }
+
             consumed = io.WantCaptureKeyboard || io.WantTextInput;
             k.Dispose();
         }
@@ -268,6 +282,10 @@ public static void ProcessNotification(long what)
             case MainLoop.NotificationApplicationFocusOut:
                 ImGui.GetIO().AddFocusEvent(false);
                 break;
+            case MainLoop.NotificationOsImeUpdate:
+                // workaround for Godot suppressing key up events during IME
+                ImGui.GetIO().ClearInputKeys();
+                break;
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/Internal/State.cs b/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/Internal/State.cs
index fa47a07..af39d2a 100644
--- a/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/Internal/State.cs
+++ b/addons/imgui-godot/ImGuiGodot/Internal/State.cs
@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ private enum RendererType
 
     internal static State Instance { get; set; } = null!;
 
+    [UnmanagedFunctionPointer(CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
+    private delegate void PlatformSetImeDataFn(
+        nint ctx,
+        ImGuiViewportPtr vp,
+        ImGuiPlatformImeDataPtr data);
+    private static readonly PlatformSetImeDataFn _setImeData = SetImeData;
+
     public State(IRenderer renderer)
     {
         Renderer = renderer;
@@ -63,6 +70,7 @@ public State(IRenderer renderer)
         {
             io.NativePtr->BackendPlatformName = (byte*)_backendName;
             io.NativePtr->BackendRendererName = (byte*)_rendererName;
+            io.NativePtr->PlatformSetImeDataFn = Marshal.GetFunctionPointerForDelegate(_setImeData);
         }
 
         Viewports = new Viewports();
@@ -184,5 +192,20 @@ public void Render()
         ImGui.UpdatePlatformWindows();
         Renderer.Render();
     }
+
+    private static void SetImeData(nint ctx, ImGuiViewportPtr vp, ImGuiPlatformImeDataPtr data)
+    {
+        int windowID = (int)vp.PlatformHandle;
+
+        DisplayServer.WindowSetImeActive(data.WantVisible, windowID);
+        if (data.WantVisible)
+        {
+            Vector2I pos = new(
+                (int)(data.InputPos.X - vp.Pos.X),
+                (int)(data.InputPos.Y - vp.Pos.Y + data.InputLineHeight)
+                );
+            DisplayServer.WindowSetImePosition(pos, windowID);
+        }
+    }
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/doc/examples/GdsDemo/demo.gd b/doc/examples/GdsDemo/demo.gd
index 42058a6..8b39884 100644
--- a/doc/examples/GdsDemo/demo.gd
+++ b/doc/examples/GdsDemo/demo.gd
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ var ms_selection := []
 var table_items := []
 
 func _ready():
+    Engine.max_fps = 120
+
     var io := ImGui.GetIO()
     io.ConfigFlags |= ImGui.ConfigFlags_ViewportsEnable
 
@@ -30,70 +32,70 @@ func _process(_delta: float) -> void:
 
     var gdver: String = Engine.get_version_info()["string"]
 
-    ImGui.Begin("Demo")
-    ImGui.Text("ImGui in")
-    ImGui.SameLine()
-    ImGui.TextLinkOpenURLEx("Godot %s" % gdver, "https://www.godotengine.org")
-    ImGui.Text("mem %.1f KiB / peak %.1f KiB" % [
-        OS.get_static_memory_usage() / 1024.0,
-        OS.get_static_memory_peak_usage() / 1024.0])
-    ImGui.Separator()
-
-    ImGui.DragFloat("myfloat", myfloat)
-    ImGui.Text(str(myfloat[0]))
-    ImGui.InputText("mystr", mystr, 32)
-    ImGui.Text(mystr[0])
-
-    ImGui.PlotHistogram("histogram", values, values.size())
-    ImGui.PlotLines("lines", values, values.size())
-    ImGui.ListBox("choices", current_item, items, items.size())
-    ImGui.Combo("combo", current_item, items)
-    ImGui.Text("choice = %s" % items[current_item[0]])
-
-    ImGui.SeparatorText("Multi-Select")
-    if ImGui.BeginChild("MSItems", Vector2(0,0), ImGui.ChildFlags_FrameStyle):
-        var flags := ImGui.MultiSelectFlags_ClearOnEscape | ImGui.MultiSelectFlags_BoxSelect1d
-        var ms_io := ImGui.BeginMultiSelectEx(flags, ms_selection.size(), ms_items.size())
-        apply_selection_requests(ms_io)
-        for i in range(items.size()):
-            var is_selected := ms_selection.has(i)
-            ImGui.SetNextItemSelectionUserData(i)
-            ImGui.SelectableEx(ms_items[i], is_selected)
-        ms_io = ImGui.EndMultiSelect()
-        apply_selection_requests(ms_io)
+    if ImGui.Begin("Demo"):
+        ImGui.Text("ImGui in")
+        ImGui.SameLine()
+        ImGui.TextLinkOpenURLEx("Godot %s" % gdver, "https://www.godotengine.org")
+        ImGui.Text("mem %.1f KiB / peak %.1f KiB" % [
+            OS.get_static_memory_usage() / 1024.0,
+            OS.get_static_memory_peak_usage() / 1024.0])
+        ImGui.Separator()
+
+        ImGui.DragFloat("myfloat", myfloat)
+        ImGui.Text(str(myfloat[0]))
+        ImGui.InputText("mystr", mystr, 32)
+        ImGui.Text(mystr[0])
+
+        ImGui.PlotHistogram("histogram", values, values.size())
+        ImGui.PlotLines("lines", values, values.size())
+        ImGui.ListBox("choices", current_item, items, items.size())
+        ImGui.Combo("combo", current_item, items)
+        ImGui.Text("choice = %s" % items[current_item[0]])
+
+        ImGui.SeparatorText("Multi-Select")
+        if ImGui.BeginChild("MSItems", Vector2(0,0), ImGui.ChildFlags_FrameStyle):
+            var flags := ImGui.MultiSelectFlags_ClearOnEscape | ImGui.MultiSelectFlags_BoxSelect1d
+            var ms_io := ImGui.BeginMultiSelectEx(flags, ms_selection.size(), ms_items.size())
+            apply_selection_requests(ms_io)
+            for i in range(items.size()):
+                var is_selected := ms_selection.has(i)
+                ImGui.SetNextItemSelectionUserData(i)
+                ImGui.SelectableEx(ms_items[i], is_selected)
+            ms_io = ImGui.EndMultiSelect()
+            apply_selection_requests(ms_io)
         ImGui.EndChild()
     ImGui.End()
 
-    ImGui.Begin("Sortable Table")
-    if ImGui.BeginTable("sortable_table", 2, ImGui.TableFlags_Sortable):
-        ImGui.TableSetupColumn("ID", ImGui.TableColumnFlags_DefaultSort)
-        ImGui.TableSetupColumn("Name")
-        ImGui.TableSetupScrollFreeze(0, 1)
-        ImGui.TableHeadersRow()
-
-        var sort_specs := ImGui.TableGetSortSpecs()
-        if sort_specs.SpecsDirty:
-            for spec: ImGuiTableColumnSortSpecsPtr in sort_specs.Specs:
-                var col := spec.ColumnIndex
-                if spec.SortDirection == ImGui.SortDirection_Ascending:
-                    table_items.sort_custom(func(lhs, rhs): return lhs[col] < rhs[col])
-                else:
-                    table_items.sort_custom(func(lhs, rhs): return lhs[col] > rhs[col])
-            sort_specs.SpecsDirty = false
-
-        for i in range(table_items.size()):
-            ImGui.TableNextRow()
-            ImGui.TableNextColumn()
-            ImGui.Text("%d" % table_items[i][0])
-            ImGui.TableNextColumn()
-            ImGui.Text(table_items[i][1])
-        ImGui.EndTable()
+    if ImGui.Begin("Sortable Table"):
+        if ImGui.BeginTable("sortable_table", 2, ImGui.TableFlags_Sortable):
+            ImGui.TableSetupColumn("ID", ImGui.TableColumnFlags_DefaultSort)
+            ImGui.TableSetupColumn("Name")
+            ImGui.TableSetupScrollFreeze(0, 1)
+            ImGui.TableHeadersRow()
+
+            var sort_specs := ImGui.TableGetSortSpecs()
+            if sort_specs.SpecsDirty:
+                for spec: ImGuiTableColumnSortSpecsPtr in sort_specs.Specs:
+                    var col := spec.ColumnIndex
+                    if spec.SortDirection == ImGui.SortDirection_Ascending:
+                        table_items.sort_custom(func(lhs, rhs): return lhs[col] < rhs[col])
+                    else:
+                        table_items.sort_custom(func(lhs, rhs): return lhs[col] > rhs[col])
+                sort_specs.SpecsDirty = false
+
+            for i in range(table_items.size()):
+                ImGui.TableNextRow()
+                ImGui.TableNextColumn()
+                ImGui.Text("%d" % table_items[i][0])
+                ImGui.TableNextColumn()
+                ImGui.Text(table_items[i][1])
+            ImGui.EndTable()
     ImGui.End()
 
     ImGui.SetNextWindowClass(wc_topmost)
     ImGui.SetNextWindowSize(Vector2(200, 200), ImGui.Cond_Once)
-    ImGui.Begin("topmost viewport window")
-    ImGui.TextWrapped("when this is a viewport window outside the main window, it will stay on top")
+    if ImGui.Begin("topmost viewport window"):
+        ImGui.TextWrapped("when this is a viewport window outside the main window, it will stay on top")
     ImGui.End()
 
 func _physics_process(_delta: float) -> void:
diff --git a/doc/examples/GdsDemo/project.godot b/doc/examples/GdsDemo/project.godot
index 21fc64b..6d9fa44 100644
--- a/doc/examples/GdsDemo/project.godot
+++ b/doc/examples/GdsDemo/project.godot
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ config_version=5
 
 config/name="GdsDemo"
 run/main_scene="res://main.tscn"
-config/features=PackedStringArray("4.2", "Forward Plus")
+config/features=PackedStringArray("4.3", "Forward Plus")
 config/icon="res://icon.svg"
 
 [autoload]
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ ImGuiRoot="*res://addons/imgui-godot/data/ImGuiRoot.tscn"
 [display]
 
 window/subwindows/embed_subwindows=false
+window/vsync/vsync_mode=0
 
 [editor_plugins]
 
diff --git a/gdext/godot-cpp b/gdext/godot-cpp
index d6e5286..1f9a0b7 160000
--- a/gdext/godot-cpp
+++ b/gdext/godot-cpp
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit d6e5286cc19bbd5b2c626207d3b01a8f145c0f76
+Subproject commit 1f9a0b7171b4a3c89139236653b13318d312ab39
diff --git a/gdext/src/Context.cpp b/gdext/src/Context.cpp
index d8032ac..cff56a1 100644
--- a/gdext/src/Context.cpp
+++ b/gdext/src/Context.cpp
@@ -11,6 +11,21 @@ namespace {
 std::unique_ptr<Context> ctx;
 
 const char* PlatformName = "godot4";
+
+void SetImeData(ImGuiContext* ctx, ImGuiViewport* vp, ImGuiPlatformImeData* data)
+{
+    DisplayServer* DS = DisplayServer::get_singleton();
+    const int32_t windowID = (int32_t)(intptr_t)vp->PlatformHandle;
+
+    DS->window_set_ime_active(data->WantVisible, windowID);
+    if (data->WantVisible)
+    {
+        Vector2i pos;
+        pos.x = data->InputPos.x - vp->Pos.x;
+        pos.y = data->InputPos.y - vp->Pos.y + data->InputLineHeight;
+        DS->window_set_ime_position(pos, windowID);
+    }
+}
 } // namespace
 
 Context* GetContext()
@@ -31,6 +46,7 @@ Context::Context(std::unique_ptr<Renderer> r)
 
     io.BackendPlatformName = PlatformName;
     io.BackendRendererName = renderer->Name();
+    io.PlatformSetImeDataFn = SetImeData;
 
     viewports = std::make_unique<Viewports>();
 }
diff --git a/gdext/src/ImGuiAPI.h b/gdext/src/ImGuiAPI.h
index 2a889f7..f989650 100644
--- a/gdext/src/ImGuiAPI.h
+++ b/gdext/src/ImGuiAPI.h
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ struct GdsPtr<String>
     {
         if (bufhash != std::hash<std::string_view>{}({buf.begin(), buf.end()}))
         {
-            arr[0] = String(buf.data());
+            arr[0] = String::utf8(buf.data());
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/gdext/src/ImGuiController.cpp b/gdext/src/ImGuiController.cpp
index 886dd4f..378ad3b 100644
--- a/gdext/src/ImGuiController.cpp
+++ b/gdext/src/ImGuiController.cpp
@@ -124,8 +124,10 @@ void ImGuiController::_process(double delta)
     }
 #endif
 
+    static const StringName signalName("imgui_layout");
+    emit_signal(signalName);
+
     Context* ctx = GetContext();
-    emit_signal("imgui_layout");
     ctx->Render();
     ctx->inProcessFrame = false;
 }
diff --git a/gdext/src/Input.cpp b/gdext/src/Input.cpp
index 0200a0d..8cd4c00 100644
--- a/gdext/src/Input.cpp
+++ b/gdext/src/Input.cpp
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ struct Input::Impl
     Vector2 mouseWheel;
     ImGuiMouseCursor currentCursor = ImGuiMouseCursor_None;
     bool hasMouse = false;
+    bool takingTextInput = false;
 };
 
 namespace {
@@ -199,9 +200,17 @@ void Input::ProcessSubViewportWidget(const Ref<InputEvent>& evt)
 bool Input::HandleEvent(const Ref<InputEvent>& evt)
 {
     ImGuiIO& io = ImGui::GetIO();
-
     bool consumed = false;
 
+    if (io.WantTextInput && !impl->takingTextInput)
+    {
+        // avoid IME issues if a text input control was focused
+        GetContext()->layer->get_viewport()->gui_release_focus();
+
+        // TODO: show virtual keyboard?
+    }
+    impl->takingTextInput = io.WantTextInput;
+
     if (Ref<InputEventMouseMotion> mm = evt; mm.is_valid())
     {
         consumed = io.WantCaptureMouse;
@@ -247,14 +256,17 @@ bool Input::HandleEvent(const Ref<InputEvent>& evt)
     {
         UpdateKeyMods(io);
         ImGuiKey igk = ToImGuiKey(k->get_keycode());
+        bool pressed = k->is_pressed();
+        uint32_t unicode = k->get_unicode();
+
         if (igk != ImGuiKey_None)
         {
-            bool pressed = k->is_pressed();
-            io.AddKeyEvent(igk, k->is_pressed());
-            if (pressed && k->get_unicode() != 0 && io.WantTextInput)
-            {
-                io.AddInputCharacter(k->get_unicode());
-            }
+            io.AddKeyEvent(igk, pressed);
+        }
+
+        if (pressed && unicode != 0 && io.WantTextInput)
+        {
+            io.AddInputCharacterUTF16(unicode);
         }
         consumed = io.WantCaptureKeyboard || io.WantTextInput;
     }
@@ -333,6 +345,10 @@ void Input::ProcessNotification(int what)
     case Node::NOTIFICATION_APPLICATION_FOCUS_OUT:
         ImGui::GetIO().AddFocusEvent(false);
         break;
+    case MainLoop::NOTIFICATION_OS_IME_UPDATE:
+        // workaround for Godot suppressing key up events during IME
+        ImGui::GetIO().ClearInputKeys();
+        break;
     };
 }