Something claiming to be an "IPA phonetic alphabet" popup intercepts my keyboard input (skin Monobook, browser Chrome, visual editor off, template data on, no other tricks). It also happens here, I cannot add the colons required for indentation, it appears as some gibberish. I cannot add < (more gibberish).
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This is the stupid Universal Language Selector IME, the little keyboard icon that appears next to the textarea (when the textarea is focused), that has a shortcut-key for switching keyboards.
Click on that keyboard and change the input method to native.
Thanks, presumably I somehow managed to input a key combination switching it in an undesired position, and surviving a "restart browser" in that position. I certainly didn't open it, until I figured out that this helps to reset "native keyboard". Is there a way to get rid of it completely? I can barely guess what IPA tries to express in very simple cases, I'll never need to input it.
Pressing Ctrl+M toggles on/off.
Thanks, I think I found a more permanent solution on Disabling the tool for your user account hopefully good for all browsers and all Wikimedia projects:
- Skip the "from the sidebar" blurb (I failed to grok it, maybe it is for Vector)
- Interpret "from the Keyboard menu" as…
- click edit on any page that can be edited
- click on the input method icon directly below the input area at the end of the row (right side for LTR)
- click on the last entry in the popup with a tool icon
- click disable IME everywhere, click on apply, ready.
No idea how I ended up to opt-in to this feature, presumably I was curious as always and forgot it.