• 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.
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.
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
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.
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I haven't investigated what the cause is, but this is likely fixable from Google side, too.
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.
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This appears fixed from Google side. Please verify whether it works for you now.
(In reply to comment #8) > This appears fixed from Google side. Please verify whether it works for you now. Confirmed fixed.