Bug 64884 – Issues with diacritics on Google Docs with WebKit2

• Component: HTML Editing
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[David Latapie]

• Safari 5.1 (7534.45) on Mac OS X Lion DP4 French. I did not check with latest nightly build or with “regular” Lion.
• Happens on Google Docs
• May require an AZERTY (French) keyboard to reproduce

Impossible to type "ê" (circumflex + e).
- No problem with composing it elsewhere (like TextEdit) and pasting (like this: ê), only composing (^+e) is impossible.
- No problem with “pre-combined” diacrited characters, like "é".
- No problem with Chrome 12

I suspect the same issue arises with other non-combined characters in other languages. Said otherwise, I don't think it is related to the AZERTY layout per se.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Could you please provide detailed steps to reproduce this? Does it happen with text document, spreadsheets, presentations, or some other service on docs.google.com?

Perhaps you could attach a screenshot of a the page where it happens, too.

[David Latapie]

Created attachment 101539 [details]
Screenshot

Below is the text I wrote, so that you can try again

^Etre ou ne pas ^etre, telle est la question
Ça mérite
àÀéÉèÈùÙ
And now, pasted:
Être ou ne pas être, telle est la question

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Although the screenshot doesn't have a full web page in it, I'm going to guess that this is about text documents on docs.google.com, not about presentations etc.

With a U.S. keyboard layout and Mac OS X 10.6.8, I can reproduce an issue with typing Ê - the inline input area is closed once I press Shift. I can type lower case ê just fine (as Option+i, e).

Note that there is a workaround on Lion - you should be able press and hold e, and a suggestion window with a number of accented variants will appear. No such workaround for Snow Leopard though.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

<rdar://problem/9813164>

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I haven't investigated what the cause is, but this is likely fixable from Google side, too.

[David Latapie]

Sorry, I forgot to confirm this is in Google Docs only, no problem in Spreadsheets (I checked, but I did not check in Presentation

You can also switch to French keyboard and display the virtual keyboard (go to System Preferences for this). FYI, the circumflex compose character on a French keyboard is located where the "[" character is on a US keybaord (immediately on the right of the letter p).

I agree Google could fix this too. The problem is I don't really know whose fault it is and who should fix the issue.

Thank you anyway for your investigation.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

*** Bug 66846 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

This appears fixed from Google side. Please verify whether it works for you now.

[David Latapie]

(In reply to comment #8)
> This appears fixed from Google side. Please verify whether it works for you now.

Confirmed fixed.