Can't enter dead keys / diacritics in the client (MD-9623)

h2. Observed Behavior

If you try to enter a character like â or ó, the input is ignored and just a / o is entered.

h2. Expected Behavior

Diacricits should work

h2. Affected Environment

  • Probably every linux operating system
  • Reported on Debian 9
  • Reproduced on Ubuntu 16.04

Reported by @sam in this thread.