Articles with diacritic letters can't be mentioned

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· Articles & templates ·
By Isaac Thompson on 12/04/2025
· Assigned to katerinach

If you have an article with accented letters (e.g. á, è, ü), the mention behaviour in the new editor isn't what you expect.   For example: I have articles with the word "Ovük". In the old editor, typing 'ovu' would return these articles. In the new editor, this does not happen, making it impossible to mention the article without typing the diacritics (changing keyboard, copying the letters from elsewhere), slowing down the writing process.   While this can be worked around in some instances (finding a 3 letter long sequence of 'standard' characters in an article name), not all articles may have these.   See images below - the first shows the new editor, and how typing 'ovuk' doesn't show the three articles in the sidebar despite them being searchable in Athena. The second shows the same articles being visible from the old editor.  

(This behaviour also occurs on Edge and incognito windows)

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create an article with diacritic letters in the title 2. Open another article in Athena 3. Try to @ mention the first article without typing diacritics

Operating System

Windows

Browser

Firefox

Related Entity

Mentioning articles in the new Athena editor

History

mikolaszko @ 16 Dec, 2025 03:06:59 Developer
Assigned katerinach