# "Search" keyboard shortcuts conflicts with Polish diacritics input
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** keyboard-shortcuts
**Created:** [October 17, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286 "2017-10-17T16:26:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Miszo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Miszo)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286/1 "2017-10-17T16:26:57Z")
Hi! First, thank you for creating such a great software and community!
But to the point: When I type (and it’s the way everyone in Poland types it) Polish diacritics “ś” on my keyboard by pressing right alt + s, search popup pops up, capturing the text that follows. This isn’t a big problem, but it’s very annoying. Is there a way to change it or turn it off ?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286/2 "2017-10-17T16:36:31Z")
There was a fix for this a couple days ago, you should upgrade:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7af1bf32d510ef5af7345c53f03ced304e65472d](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7af1bf32d510ef5af7345c53f03ced304e65472d)
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### Author:  [@Miszo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Miszo)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286/3 "2017-10-17T16:40:52Z")
I just upgraded today and this problem also appears on this site, so this upgrade probably caused the described behaviour to appear (right alt is, I suppose, equivalent to ctrl+alt).
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286/4 "2017-10-17T16:46:08Z")
Hmm. I can’t get any alt-S to search. Perhaps you should send @sam your keyboard. (Obviously not a real solution, but he might be able to help.)
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286/5 "2017-10-17T17:21:10Z")
More specifically. sharing your specific keyboard _layout_ would likely be helpful. Please don’t ship Sam your keyboard 📦.
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### Author:  [@Miszo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Miszo)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286/6 "2017-10-17T17:39:33Z")
It’s Polish QWERTY – with AltGr (and I already wrote to Sam).
One more thing – it probably only affects Windows, as it maps (as I understand) AltGr to ctrl+alt; I tested Mac a moment ago and it’s ok there.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286/8 "2017-10-17T19:26:42Z")
Grrr, this is a hard one to win, CTRL+ALT+s was a change I made cause CTRL+s conflicted with Firefox.
Can I detect AltGr from JS so I can still keep this or do I need to move the shortcut?
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### Author:  [@Sevosik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sevosik)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286/9 "2017-10-17T21:03:44Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> so I can still keep this or do I need to move the shortcut?
We use this keyboard shortcut to enter to the text “ś”, which can be entered with the following combinations:
- Alt + S
- CTRL + Alt + S
It pisses me of when the search engine activates at that time - one of my users drew my attention to it. We very often use such signs, so I would like to ask you to change this 🙂
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286/10 "2017-10-17T21:09:35Z")
I am fine to change it but its hard to find something that does not conflict… that is all..
CTRL+ALT+F anyone?
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### Author:  [@Sevosik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sevosik)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286/11 "2017-10-17T21:13:47Z")
Even CTRL + F (without ALT) would be good. It doesnt affect at our language.
I have an idea of how this can be done for the benefit of everyone.
By default - the same keyboard shortcuts for everyone.
Someone wants to have shortcuts suitable for their language - you can add an “locale\_shortcuts = pl” style option to config and for other languages, and so on.
It’s hard to reconcile everyone in terms of keyboard shortcuts, so I think it doesn’t make sense to do it universally for all languages.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286/12 "2017-10-18T00:02:45Z")
CTRL+F is search in most browsers. That triggers our search for me.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286/13 "2017-10-18T01:23:19Z")
It works on long topics but short topics when you are composing you can not use that shortcut cause you get in page search.
Anyway changed it to CTRL+ALT+F for now so this is resolved
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-keyboard-shortcuts-conflicts-with-polish-diacritics-input/72286/14 "2017-10-18T01:23:22Z")