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National (i.e. Polish) characters in editors cause problems.

Detailed Description of the Problem National characters are not supported in editor. I am of Polish nationality, and when I try to write posts in my native language strange thins happan,like erasing whole line of text or something like that. It looks like when i try to do Polish character (e.g. 'z' with ALT key should give 'ż') it is some kind of shortcut for editor. Steps to Reproduce the Problem Don't use national character, but it can cause grammar or reading issues, when communicating in language other then English. I suppose othe national character like Czech or something like that can have the same issue. Description of Your Setup (Browser + Version, Operating System, etc.) Chrome Browser v.27 Windows 7 64-bit Polish
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Is this in the game or on the message boards? - Gauss
I tried to post new topic in "Campaign discussion". There is an editor to write post. I didn't check in-game chat for Polish signs, but I can if you wish me to.
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Gauss
Forum Champion
When I am typing and I hit Alt+Z nothing happens. Are you perhaps accidentally hitting Ctrl+Z? Ctrl+Z is the undo shortcut. - Gauss
Try right alt, not left. It is commonly used keyboard setting in Poland to do national characters with alt, but right one. Left one is normal ALT key. I noticed also that it is problematic only in text body, not in subject field.
Chat in game is fine. Polish character working good.
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Right Alt+Z does nothing for me either so I don't think it is a system issue on Roll20's side. Perhaps you can take a video and show us what is happening? - Gauss Edit: after a bit of research this appears to be a problem outside of Roll20 with many programs one of which may be Chrome. However, I will check with the Devs to make sure there is nothing they can do. Some of what I read appears to be that the problem is that when you are using Right Alt this way it is being counted as AltGr which is more or less interpreted as pressing Ctrl+Alt at the same time.&nbsp; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key</a> - Gauss
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Gauss
Forum Champion
One other thing, could you try firefox and see if the bug happens there?&nbsp; - Gauss
I can try, but need to install first.
Erasing text only happens when I press Alt+Z. I jumped to hasty conclusion that there are some problems with all national characters. So it appears it is only ALT+Z problem. Sorry for misleading. In firefox the same situation. It could be this ALTGR issue. Anyway, it is unusual behavior. In this very text editor where I am writing now It does not happen, so there must be something.