Impossible to insert the "ę" character when editing in Module: namespace with the code editor
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	matmarex
	Sep 4 2013, 5:35 PM

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[Please move this to a different component if applicable, I'm not sure where the editor comes from.]

It is impossible to insert the "ę" or "Ę" characters (latin letter "e"/"E" with ogonek) from keyboard when editing in Module: namespace with the code editor on the Polish Wikipedia.

"ę" is inserted on the Polish keyboard using AltGr+e (aka Ctrl+Alt+e). If the editor uses this as a hotkey, it shouldn't (nor should it use any other Ctrl+Alt combinations).

(Reported at https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kawiarenka/Kwestie_techniczne#VisualEditor_a_polskie_diakrytyki)

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matmarex created this task.Sep 4 2013, 5:35 PM

You want CodeEditor.

I note that I can type ę and Ę fine in CodeEditor from here, where the key combinations are "<Compose> ; e" and "<Compose> ; E".

I also remapped Ctrl+Alt+E to "ę" temporarily, and I was able to enter that character using that key combination in CodeEditor on a module page on plwiki with no issues (using Firefox 24 on Linux).

@Brad, depending on how exactly you remapped it, the Ctrl+Alt+E might be mapped to "ę" in some lower-level layer, not letting the browser even see it. (I used this a few times to wrestle with some stupid applications which take Ctrl+Alt shortcuts for themselves to take it away from them.)

Some grepping shows ACE Editor uses "Ctrl-Alt-E" / "Command-Option-E" for the "togglerecording" command. This is most likely the culprit.

This seems to be the only Ctrl-Alt shortcut involving regular letters (there are also a few with arrow keys and backspace).

In that case, it looks like you could follow the example in modules/jquery.codeEditor.js near line 151 to disable this command too.

These are all the default defined key combinations:
https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/blob/40ea516801332fb8e96f8ba2e5046eece2fd95d3/lib/ace/commands/default_commands.js

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This works correctly these days.

It was apparently fixed by https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/pull/1463 (d4bdfe33001b4c13134515b0fa53b6b64d8b3ee1) – which was already merged when I was filing this bug :) – and we upgraded to that version in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/CodeEditor/+/104510 (early 2014).

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