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Cannot edit talk pages

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Be..anyone (talkcontribs)

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).

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

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.

Be..anyone (talkcontribs)

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.

FriedhelmW (talkcontribs)

Pressing Ctrl+M toggles on/off.

Be..anyone (talkcontribs)

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.

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