"é" key not working in firefox

[vfbsilva]

Acute sign is not working when placed in the first character of a line in firefox. If I press space and add the combo it will work. This is specifically annoying on whatsapp as I write mainly in portuguese. I have absolutely no idea about what might be going on.

[eso]

If I write into URL édes (sweat in Hungarian) it works at version 134.0.2

xev #(xorg-xev) says:

keycode 47 (keysym 0xe9, eacute), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 a9) “é”

[vfbsilva]

What is the output of those command? I dont seem to have them. How do I install it?

[eso]

yay -S xorg-xev
xev
it shows the key-codes you press until you close that window. Idk why it works in wayland as well.

[vfbsilva]

@eso

yay -S xorg-xev

KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001,
    root 0x218, subw 0x0, time 31507042, (568,101), root:(1759,719),
    state 0x0, keycode 0 (keysym 0xe9, eacute), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 26
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 a9) "é"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001,
    root 0x218, subw 0x0, time 31507111, (568,101), root:(1759,719),
    state 0x0, keycode 26 (keysym 0x65, e), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (65) "e"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

[eso]

It’s the same with me. I must admit I don’t understand the problem. If you enter
é in Firefox URL
it behaves like in google.com search phrase.

[vfbsilva]

I’ve recorded a video showing the problem

[eso]

Is it https://web.whatsapp.com/ ?
Sorry to say I repeated your test without those not fully visible é-s.
I don’t want to divert the case. I used Firefox 134.0.2 in Wayland Plasma 6.2.5
Linux 6.6.72-1-lts in Arch based Ditana
If you send the message to yourself the first é is missing?
It seems a screen-scaling related problem to me. Did you change the default font?

[kwg]

Try starting Firefox with this command:

GTK_IM_MODULE=xim firefox

If the problem goes away, add this line to /etc/environment:

GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

Then, after a reboot, try starting Firefox normally.