Bug 422926 - Special character œ in Windows opens a search bar instead of writing
Summary: Special character œ in Windows opens a search bar instead of writing
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kate
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWrite Developers
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Reported: 2020-06-13 17:25 UTC by Xavier Guillot
Modified: 2022-03-06 22:20 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Screenshot of search bar opened instead of character written (29.37 KB, image/png)
2020-06-13 17:25 UTC, Xavier Guillot
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Description Xavier Guillot 2020-06-13 17:25:19 UTC
Created attachment 129318 [details]
Screenshot of search bar opened instead of character written

1. I use the "French, Alternative" keyboard fr-oss both on Linux and Windows 10, which includes some special characters and arrows.

2. Accented capital letters work well on Kate, but if I try to write "œ" (the Alt 0156) with "AltGr + o" on Windows 10, instead of typing the character, it opens above the text a rapid search bar (see screenshot).

I use the last Kate version available on Microsoft store.

3. On Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) and Kate 19.12.3, no such problem : "AltGr + o" well writes "œ"

Perhaps a shortcut on Windows overlays the character command ?

Thanks for your help !
Comment 1 Kåre Särs 2020-06-14 09:03:32 UTC
I can reproduce...

It seems that on Windows AltGr+O is interpreted as Ctrl+Alt+O

I changed the shortcut for Quick-Open away from Ctrl+Alt+O and the dialog stops to open for AltGr+O, but I cannot get the "œ" character with the shortcut. I tried to use the same shortcut in notepad and visualstudio 2019, but it did not produce it... I'm running in VirtualBox and nordic layout so that could be one issue...
Comment 2 Xavier Guillot 2020-06-14 09:46:49 UTC
Hi, thanks for the answer and change suggestion !

But to get the shortcut working and write "œ" (as for accented capital letters), you need to install and choose clavier_fr-oss.zip "Français (France) - Français - Clavier enrichi" for Windows - like French variant available on Linux, but default MS keyboard doesn't have those characters :

http://mjulier.free.fr/clavier/
Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2022-03-06 22:20:04 UTC
Hi, I am not sure one can fix that in Kate, you can change the default shortcut for quick open in the settings.

I am using atm the EurKey layout, that has similar issues, ALTGR-O should type ö.

Sorry that we can't fix that in the tool, but I think we can not just not use any CTRL-ALT shortcuts only because Windows misbehaves here.