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Impossible to write some special characters (Linux only)

See original GitHub issue

The input doesn’t allow some special characters to be written, like:

à [ ` + a]
é [ ’ + e ]
á [ ’ + a ]
ã [ ~ + a ]
ó [ ’ + o ]

But allows others like “ç”.

The characters that can’t be added are all combinations of two keys and can be added to the text area by other means (using Ctrl+V or setting the text content in the source code).

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Created 7 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:22 (11 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

roipoussierecommented, Dec 14, 2016

Up, please. 😃

This issue is very inconvenient for our project since we are developping a text editor.

1reaction

JordanMartinezcommented, May 3, 2017

Oh…

Well, it’s also reported in JDK-8179526

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