When pressing and holding a single character macOS will display a native input method popup window with a list of accented characters. Clicking on any of accented characters, however, does *not* replace the original character and just silently fails in Writer and Impress but not in Calc. Current workaround is to press an accepted character's matching number. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open a new, empty Writer document 2. Press and hold the "a" key and wait for the native input method popup window to appear 3. Click on any of the accented characters in the popup window Expected result: the clicked accented character should overwrite the "a" input in step 2 above. Actual result: the "a" is *not* overwritten.
Assigning to myself. Work-in-progress patch is below: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/196239
Patrick Luby committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/4041d52c9c459760eca5aa42bc25c0abd99efc83 tdf#170149 Fix clicking on a character in the input method's popup window It will be available in 26.8.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
I have committed a fix for this bug and the fix should be in tomorrow's (09 January 2026) nightly master builds: https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/current.html Note for macOS testers: the nightly master build installer does not overwrite any LibreOffice official versions. Instead, it will be installed as a separate application called "LibreOfficeDev" in the /Applications folder. Because this is a "test" build, you will need to do the following steps before you launch the LibreOfficeDev application: 1. Go to the Finder and navigate to the /Applications/Utilities folder 2. Launch the "Terminal" application 3. Paste the following command in the Terminal application window and press the Return key to execute the command: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LibreOfficeDev.app
Patrick Luby committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/4334ca4cd1fb99a450c797ead0a72570670930b0 Related: tdf#170149 escape and return keys need the delete key special handling It will be available in 26.8.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Patrick Luby committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-26-2": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/57f1436636eab73b90c3e91c11895bf6efe033f9 tdf#170149 Fix clicking on a character in the input method's popup window It will be available in 26.2.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.