Cannot write accents with dead keys - markdown editor

[yajo]

Describe the bug

While writing non-English content with accents, my keyboard requires combining 2 keystrokes (accent - then letter. Spanish has áéíóúü). The accented letter is erased in the markdown editor.

To Reproduce

Just write with dead keys accents in markdown editor.

Expected behavior

Normal writing.

Screenshots

Peek.26-04-2021.18-30.mp4

Applicable Versions:

• Netlify CMS version: netlify-cms-app 2.14.46, netlify-cms-core 2.39.6, netlify-cms 2.10.117
• Git provider: Gitlab
• OS: Fedora 33 Silverblue
• Browser version Firefox 87.0

CMS configuration

https://www.recallstack.icu/admin/config.yml

Additional context

It seems to work fine on Chromium.

[ampa-marques-user]

This happens to me too. I can´t delegate the content creation because of this (a developer is needed to create the content without the cms now).

Also this bug makes netlify-cms look english-centric because it makes it not possible to use netlify-cms to write content in most languages.

[pmarcus93]

This is happening to me as well.
I write in Brazilian Portuguese and I'm having the same issues with characters such as ç, ã, á, é and so on.

OS: Pop_OS! 21.10.
Browser: Firefox 95.0.1 (64-bits).

[yajo]

Interestingly, today I tested on Firefox on Windows and it works. So, it seems the buggy combination is Firefox + Linux.

[miltonbolonha]

Tag list-widget cannot have these Brazilians characters :(
I need those.

[bitobeats]

I'm also having this problem in macOS Safari (tested in v16 and v16.1, macOS Monterey and macOS Ventura).

[freesteph]

NetlifyCMS uses Slate under the hood, which seems to have fixed the problem now. Typing accents on:

https://www.slatejs.org/examples/richtext

works fine.

Slate's current release is 0.87.0
Netlify uses 0.47.

Maybe a simple upgrade would do the trick?

EDIT: it doesn't seem that easy

[mitchbox]

When will the team upgrade the Slate?

[bitobeats]

When will the team upgrade the Slate?

I was looking at their support forum and apparently this is not maintained anymore. I found that there's a fork of it. I haven't tried it yet but looks interesting: Static CMS

[mitchbox]

Too bad... Thank you for sharing the information.

[stale]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[martinjagodic]

Fixed in Decap 3