[Automated Action] NeedInfo-To-Unconfirmed

Confirm that this accented-character issue exists in all 7.x versions of LibreOffice - my systems run under GNU/Linux - and it is very pronounced in "heavier" documents, namely when the program has to do additional rendering tasks, like handling multi-column tables with text.

The same issue has also been reported here: 
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138448

The importance of this bug should be changed to MAJOR.

Not quite... Version: 7.2.0.0.alpha0+ under mate desktop and Linux kernel 5.8.18

Currently working on a 120+ page 4-column table with text.

Typing a word including characters with a dead accent; the accent and an underline appears.

Keep on typing, the accented character appears before the (normally) subsequent ones.

Example (in Hellenic): "υπολογιστών" is rendered "υπολογισώτν"

Revisiting this page I noted that there are at least two relevant / duplicate bug reports, 142084 (version 7.1.2.2) and 117128 (version 5.4.4.2), therefore the bug status should be set to 'NEW' or 'Duplicate'

Currently using Writer version 7.3.0.3 under Linux kernel 5.16.3 and characters produced using dead keys appear in their correct place.  Keeping an eye on it.

The issue persists with version 7.5 and was also noted with the 7.3 and 7.4 versions.

Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 2b4d136b65bc79a1248876160e85fab79d52d5d6
CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 5.19; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

The problem started with the office program(s) wanting to display a pending accent before the complete keyboard/character code was sent, which apparently created a race condition, readily observable in older/slower systems and/or 'difficult' documents like the one described above (long, multi-column, tables with several lines of text in each cell).

As long as a specific commit addressing this issue is not in reference, I don't expect it to go away.

Ok, let's set to NEW, then.

dm: how do you type them? Alt+numpad does not work for me on Linux (KDE) for some reason. I can use the Unicode hex input, pressing Ctrl+Shift+u, then inputting f6 and then hitting Space or Enter inserts an ö character (see the hex codes in Insert - Special Character).

(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #11)
> Ok, let's set to NEW, then.
> 
> dm: how do you type them? Alt+numpad does not work for me on Linux (KDE) for
> some reason. I can use the Unicode hex input, pressing Ctrl+Shift+u, then
> inputting f6 and then hitting Space or Enter inserts an ö character (see the
> hex codes in Insert - Special Character).

You need to use a layout with dead keys (letter follows accent).  For example, to produce the á character in "English US with dead keys" I type the single quote mark ' (two keys to the right of L on my keyboard) followed by a. When you hit the dead key LO shows the accent and as soon as you hit the character to be accented, the accent is replaced by the corresponding accented character.

I am not familiar with the internals of LO but if you could indicate in which LO module(s) this character-forming is happening, I will attempt a walk-through.

Ok, then I set back to unconfirmed and mark your comments as off-topic, because this report is about inputting characters with Alt+ASCII code. No problem for me with the method you describe and gtk3 UI.