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Diaeresis marks on international keyboards cause an error. A warning message might be more appropriate.
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Description
Describe the bug
I was working with a student today who primarily uses an international keyboard. From what I was able to discern her keyboard was mapping the quotation mark character to the Unicode diaeresis (¨) character. It took a good five minutes to figure out what was happening. From a distance, and on lower resolution laptops, diaeresis and quotation marks look incredibly similar (¨ vs "). It would be great if there was a way to detect when this was happening and warn users. I am unsure of what particular international keyboard settings were being used but I could find out if it would be helpful.
To Reproduce
Here is an example of the behavior.
https://popcode.org/?snapshot=7eb205a0-f042-4084-80b5-5b2397778c08
Expected behavior
It would be amazing if we could detect when this occurs and present users with a warning, perhaps with instructions on how to change their keyboard mapping. Simply grepping the student source code would probably be sufficient. Alternatively, highlighting diaeresis marks and similar characters could make the problem easier to spot.
Screenshots

- OS: [e.g. iOS]
Chrome book
- Browser [e.g. chrome, safari]
Google Chrome
- Version [e.g. 22]
Version unknown
Additional context
Happy to discuss further if it would help. I would love to teach the students about the process of submitting a bug report / issue. ❤️
Thanks for you help! Popcode is great project!
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the problem with the linked snapshot on an international keyboard using Chrome on a Chromebook. Trace how student source code is inspected or rendered, then define completion as a clear warning or highlighting for diaeresis characters that helps users identify the keyboard-mapping problem.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100