# Editor loses accents capability **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [May 15, 2019, 10:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editor-loses-accents-capability/117788 "2019-05-15T10:14:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hellekin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hellekin/32/51636_2.png) [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 10:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editor-loses-accents-capability/117788/1 "2019-05-15T10:14:03Z")
## Context - Firefox - Composite keyboard character map ## Symptoms - Lost cursor - Accented characters do not appear ## Description Since 2.3.0.beta9, the editor sometimes loses the capability to write some accented characters, which becomes very annoying. Pasting accented texts work, which provides a temporary workaround. When first loaded, the editor works fine, but at some point (which remains unclear) he cursor disappears and the accented characters cannot be inserted anymore from the keyboard. The bug appears in Firefox with composite character maps (e.g., the Spanish map where an accented character can be inserted by typing the diacritic then the letter). The console does not throw an error. There’s a deprecation warning on “removing all listeners” which may or may not be related. ---
**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 10:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editor-loses-accents-capability/117788/2 "2019-05-15T10:24:20Z")
Can you reproduce here? What are the exact reproduction steps? ---
**Author:** ![hellekin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hellekin/32/51636_2.png) [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editor-loses-accents-capability/117788/3 "2019-05-15T10:27:03Z")
Writing test with accents and the Spanish keyboard: ñ works, but not é, è, à, or ê. (in HTML: é, è, or à, or ê.) To reproduce: 1. switch to a composite keyboard 2. reply to this topic. ---
**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 10:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editor-loses-accents-capability/117788/4 "2019-05-15T10:30:06Z")
I’m writing these characters: ñ, é, è, à and ê on latest FF using “composite keyboard” (eg. “ENG INTL”) on latest Windows 10. ---
**Author:** ![hellekin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hellekin/32/51636_2.png) [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editor-loses-accents-capability/117788/5 "2019-05-15T10:31:58Z")
I’m on GNU/Linux with Firefox 60.6.2esr. I’ve seen this bug on another distro with the same Firefox version. ---
**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editor-loses-accents-capability/117788/6 "2019-05-15T10:33:37Z")
Latest version is 66.0.5. Can you please update and try again? ---
**Author:** ![hellekin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hellekin/32/51636_2.png) [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editor-loses-accents-capability/117788/7 "2019-05-15T10:40:33Z")
Test with Firefox 66.0.5 downloaded from [mozilla.org](http://mozilla.org). There must be a bug that has been fixed since then. ---
**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/editor-loses-accents-capability/117788/8 "2019-05-15T10:40:49Z")