Bug 120438

Summary:	Can't enter special characters requiring option key on macOS (like € @ [] - w German layout)
Product:	LibreOffice Online	Reporter:	Florian Effenberger <floeff>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	aron.budea, xiscofauli
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	macOS (All)
Whiteboard:	target:6.2.0
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:

Description Florian Effenberger 2018-10-09 08:58:17 UTC

Using Firefox (62.0.3) at least, on macOS I can't enter special characters in Writer, they just don't appear, not even as blank character. Affected are at least € @ []

I can copy & paste them just fine, just adding them directly doesn't seem to work.

Tested with online 6.0.4 and 6.1.1

Comment 1 Aron Budea 2018-10-24 12:27:26 UTC

Thanks for the bug report, Florian. I can confirm the characters requiring the Option (⌥) key can't be input.

I assume you were using German layout, hence the following all require this key:
- €: ⌥-E
- [: ⌥-5
- ]: ⌥-6
- @: ⌥-L

With English layout, the Euro symbol is an example:
- €: ⌥-Shift-2

Comment 2 Commit Notification 2018-10-25 08:06:46 UTC

Tor Lillqvist committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/online/commit/?id=1e97cfc2d2a8ee3e296ddfb7a331466bede4a575

tdf#120438: Don't handle a lone "alt" modifier in any special way

Comment 3 Aron Budea 2018-10-26 09:34:28 UTC

With the fix, this can now be closed. Thanks, Tor!