Polish letters sometimes move cursor to the beginning of the text box

Glamhoth · 2017-10-31 18:08:00

Hey. I'm from Poland so obviously I'm chatting with my polish friend in polish language. But there this small problem, which you can see in the topic. It's hard to find the cause as it's quite rare, and doesn't happen when I want to force it (like typing óśóśóśóśóśóśóś forever). I don't know if it happens in terminal, i don't use them there. Also, for those who might not know, I type them with right alt i.e. r.alt + o = ó. Thanks for any help.

Last edited by Glamhoth (2017-10-31 19:21:55)

GenkiSky · 2017-10-31 21:11:59

Some more context would be helpful. Where are you typing when this happens? Are you using a desktop environment? If so, which? What keyboard layout/keymap are you using? Chances are you are accidentally activating some sort of keybinding. For example, the readline library uses Alt-b to go backwards a word, and some application might be emulating that behavior.

Glamhoth · 2017-11-01 07:44:25

Just words, i.e. on facebook's messenger. I'm not using any DE, i3 with LightDM. My system locale is en_US.UTF-8, pl VC keymap and pl X11 layout. As I said, it happens sometimes and for every polish letter, not just one, so I doubt it's a shortcut. I've also tried to replicate it with the letter before - when it happened after 'coś', the second time 'oś' didn't move the cursor.

seth · 2017-11-01 08:06:46

Just words, i.e. on facebook's messenger.

Err.. what on what??
Anyway, if only one particular client is affected, it's very most likely a bug in that client (and I will risk a mod warning by adding: "especially if that client was clicked together by facebook")

Glamhoth · 2017-11-01 08:23:30

seth wrote:

Err.. what on what??

Oh, I'm sorry, I misspoke. I meant that I'm chatting on facebook (facebook.com or messenger.com) on firefox, not some kind of messenger application.

seth · 2017-11-01 08:27:30

So the problem is exclusive to firefox? Does it happen in chromium? In a terminal (xterm)? A text editor? ...

Glamhoth · 2017-11-01 08:40:50

That I'm not sure of, I'm not really writing polish outside of firefox. I guess I can test chromium for a day and check if anything will change. The most annoying thing is it's irregularity, I can't propetly check what's wrong if it sometimes just doesn't happen, like for the last 2 hours.

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Polish letters sometimes move cursor to the beginning of the text box

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