Element-web: Making quotes or apostrophes with deadkeys doesn't work

[mvgorcum]

it works fine on slatejs.org and on the (linux) pc itself

[mvgorcum]

It does work on my windows 7 laptop.

[mvgorcum]

I found this issue on two separate Kubuntu 18.04 installs. I also noticed that for some reason pressing shift+spacebar after the dead key does work.

[lampholder]

Can you advise what keyboard/keyboard layout would I need to be using to reproduce this?

[mvgorcum]

I'm currently on vacation so I can't verify but from memory it is US international with dead keys. Once I'm back I will check.

[luaraneda]

I'm also having this problem since a couple of versions (I'm now on 0.16.1).
I just did some tests and it's only happening with only one way of entering characters.
Let me explain that better. I know two methods for entering special characters:

• <AltGr> + <key> (for single quote: <AltGr> + <SINGLE_QUOTE>)
• <key> + <SPACE> (for single quote: <SINGLE_QUOTE> + <SPACE>)

It's the last combination, <key> + <SPACE>, that is not working for single and double quotes.

I'm on Arch Linux with Gnome3 over X.org.
My keyboard layout is English (US, intl., with dead keys).

I'm using the current Chrome beta (69), but it also happens on the latest stable chromium (68).
If I switch the keyboard layout to English (US), I can insert single and double quotes without a problem.

EDIT: Updated to 0.16.3 and I can still reproduce the issue

[mvgorcum]

The keyboard layout I use is English (US, intl. with dead keys) as well. This is on Kubuntu 18.04, with (obviously) plasma 5 and the electron client.

I also tested English (UK, intl. with dead keys) and found the same issue.

[mthld]

Hello,

I have the same problem here, but only under Chromium (and derivatives), everything works under Firefox.
I'm running Elementary 5 Juno (Ubuntu 18.04 based), English (US, intl. with dead keys) keymap, with Chromium 69.0.3497.81 (official build) and Riot web. Please note the problem occur on both /app and /develop.

What logs can I provide to help debug this?

[turt2live]

Without platform information for this, it sounds like a duplicate of https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/7124.

If people are using anything other than Chrome or Electron (ie: desktop), please let me know so I can re-triage.