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Anone

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Registered: 2013-04-24

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[SOLVED] Google Chrome and diacritics

Hi,
I am having problem with inputing diacritical signs(Polish to be exact).
Same in Chromium, but problem doesn't appear in any other app(that I know of).
For e.g. Firefox works for me just fine.
I tried to change Encoding, same with fonts, but with no luck.

I prefer Chrome over Firefox because of syncing with my mobile devices.
I would appreciate any tips.

Last edited by Anone (2014-09-26 09:29:18)

Alad

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Re: [SOLVED] Google Chrome and diacritics

AFAIK Chromium needs some extra font packages (search with pacman -Ss ttf), also check your locale (should be pl_PL.UTF-8 UTF-8)

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Anone

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Re: [SOLVED] Google Chrome and diacritics

Thanks for your attention.
Unfortunately, changing fonts gave no good results.
Locale are set just fine, as far as I know.
Also, diacritics are displayed just fine, but the problem exist when I try to input them through keyboard.
Copy-paste of 'ż' in here or to the adress bar works just like it should. When I try to do alt+z(it's a shortcut on Polish keyboard)
it doesn't work, as it should.
I will repeat that the problem appears only on Chrome/Chromium, for e.g. libreoffice and firefox are okey.

Any other ideas?

ugjka

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2014-04-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Google Chrome and diacritics

Is your chromium up to date? I thought they fixed that in version 37.

Anone

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Re: [SOLVED] Google Chrome and diacritics

arek_@archy> pacman -Qt | grep chromium                                                                                                                                                         
chromium 37.0.2062.120-2

Yes, I have just re-installed it, deleting all config first - no luck, problem still exist.

ugjka

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Re: [SOLVED] Google Chrome and diacritics

Found a bug report, leave a comment there maybe https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issu … ?id=385264

Anone

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Re: [SOLVED] Google Chrome and diacritics

Thank you for your answer.
I'll update, when/if I get an answer there.

Anone

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Re: [SOLVED] Google Chrome and diacritics

Hi again!
I would like to inform you, that I found solution to presented problem.
Simply, I have just edited two files with:
/etc/vconsole.conf

KEYMAP=pl 
FONT=lat2-16 
CONSOLEFONT=lat2-16 
FONT_MAP=8859-2

/etc/locale.conf

LANG=pl_PL.utf8
LC_MESSAGES=C

I assume that Chromium/GoogleChrome uses for default input vconsole font. I've noticed it by changing default system language and lack of diacritics in console.
Solution worked after reboot.

ąćęłó

Can be marked as solved. Thanks!