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"Try it" section on web page doesn't work with dead keys #204

Open david-christiansen opened 2 years ago

david-christiansen commented 2 years ago

I use the US International layout with dead keys, because I regularly type both in programming languages (which work best on US layouts due to easy access to {, $, etc), English, Danish, and assorted other languages with various diacritics. This means, in particular, that I type double-quote by pressing the double-quote key followed by a space (" a, for instance, yields ä, and ' a yields á).

On the "Try it" REPL on haskell.org, my double quote key just doesn't do anything, so I can't follow the tutorial or enter any other string.

This is on both Firefox and Chrome on Fedora 36, running under GNOME.

tomjaguarpaw commented 2 years ago

I can confirm that I can reproduce this behaviour.

The difficulty in getting this fixed is that there is no active maintainer for this functionality. In fact, I don't know of anyone who knows how it works.

Relatedly, there has been discussion of replacing this feature with a more fully-featured "playground".