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Issue with online editor when writing Chinese characters
Bug description
When writing in Chinese, the slate's (the editor implementation behind gitbook) internal data structure is randomly corrupted, leading to unstability like:
- Unable to delete characters using Backspace
- Unable to insert new lines using Enter
- Editor stop responding to keyboard events
- Web page refreshes itself (possibly a js exception occurred)
In some cases a F5 will help but in other cases the entire page is corrupted and I have to screenshot everything, create new page and retype them (copy & paste can stop working, too).
How to reproduce
I didn't find a determined path to reproduce a slate internal corruption but these steps may help:
- Use a Chinese IME
- Type both Chinese and English
- Do some delete and insert
- Then the problem will be very likely to appear
Additional context
- This happens every 2 lines of text in average.
- Any Chinese IME is ok - for example, the Windows 11 builtin IME.
- I can write original markdown or HTML and sync content to git book but it's far less convenient.
- Not all slate-based editors have this problem.
This happens with Vietnamese too, using either the Windows 11 Telex IME or the third-party UniKey IME. It didn't use to happen -- I have typed a whole bunch of Vietnamese on one of my sites a few months ago.
The only way I can type Vietnamese now is outside of GitBook and then paste it in. If I type inside, it corrupts the text all over the place, and if I edit the text with other text ahead of the cursor, Heaven and Hell will be rent asunder
