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AltGr not working on Android Chrome

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, typescript
Domain
frontend, web-dev

Research direction

No source file or test is identified in the issue. First reproduce AltGr+9 in code-server on Android Chrome with a German keyboard layout, then trace the browser keyboard handling involved; done means the key inserts ] instead of opening the ninth file.

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Description

bug os-android triage
Is there an existing issue for this?
  • I have searched the existing issues
OS/Web Information
  • Web Browser: Chrome
  • Local OS: Android 15
  • Remote OS: linuxserver/code-server:latest
  • Remote Architecture: amd64
  • code-server --version: 1.104.2 b0992ddb3e3b398371da6bcfbe21a70b4d66eb8d x64
Steps to Reproduce
  1. Open code-serverin Chrome on Android with a keyboard that has DE layout
  2. open a file
  3. AltGr + 9
Expected

] in file

Actual

Switches to 9th open file like Alt+9 got pressed

Logs

Screenshot/Video

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/204fdf57-2310-4d25-a491-fc7705f4c24c

Does this bug reproduce in native VS Code?

This cannot be tested in native VS Code

Does this bug reproduce in GitHub Codespaces?

Yes, this is also broken in GitHub Codespaces

Are you accessing code-server over a secure context?
  • I am using a secure context.
Notes

No response

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