The discussion revolves around a bug where the fast edit feature in Discourse fails to work for non-English alphabets, such as those containing characters like å, ä, and ö, due to a restriction to ASCII characters Jagster. This limitation, which was introduced recently, has impacted users who rely on fast edit for languages using extended alphabets. Jagster highlights the global minority status of the English alphabet and the importance of this feature. sam acknowledges it as a bug and confirms it will be addressed. davidb implements a fix by removing the ASCII-only regex, restoring fast edit functionality for other languages. Jagster confirms the fix works, praising the return of a key feature.
When we are choosing text of languages outside english a to z, fast edit will open composer instead of… well, fast edit. I would guess it happends because someone somewhere sees letter like å,ä and ö as special characters — that those are from english point of view
But this started sometime ago, and earlier one the most valuable small tool of Discourse is now on level ”oh goodness, it will again open composer..”.
Is there any chance it would start recoqnize again other alphabets than just from A to Z?
I’ve made some updates, which includes removing the regex for ASCII only characters. This should mean that other languages can be edited again using fast edit.
Let’s keep a check on this and open a new topic if we encounter further issues.
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