@MMiller_WMF Didn't tag for Unbreak now! since you can (theoretically) remove the strings and re-type the word, but this should be solved ASAP.

CC: @Trizek-WMF

I can reproduce. My only hypothesis at the moment is that this might be a side-effect of setting spellcheck = true for the search input field, which isn't done in Minerva or Vector's search.

OK, the issue is not the spellcheck setting, I tested that locally just now.

Instead it looks like the commit which broke search for Korean is rEGRE89712d97571d5341210769e2ad785b26d08415cc When the user starts typing, we switch to a new input field, set its content, and focus it. This probably confuses the browser when it goes to assemble the components into a word, since typing began in one form input but then is migrated to a new one. With the example Revi provided, you can see the word assembly happens at the end (the last two input characters) but it doesn't take the whole string into account.

@MMiller_WMF the most obvious solution is to go back to the previous behavior, where focusing the search input on the home screen swaps to the search panel before the user begins typing. Let me know if we should do that at least as a short term fix.

I'm looking to see if this can be fixed with our existing logic – user has to start typing before we swap to the search panel – but so far am not getting anywhere.

We decided to try to find a real fix this morning, and decide during standup what to do for the 11 AM SWAT window.

Change 490670 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; owner: Kosta Harlan):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Help Panel: Fix IME broken in help panel search

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/490670

Change 490674 had a related patch set uploaded (by Thcipriani; owner: Kosta Harlan):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@wmf/1.33.0-wmf.17] Help Panel: Fix IME broken in help panel search

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/490674

Change 490674 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@wmf/1.33.0-wmf.17] Help Panel: Fix IME broken in help panel search

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/490674

Change 490670 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Help Panel: Fix IME broken in help panel search

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/490670

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2019-02-14T19:42:20Z] <thcipriani@deploy1001> Synchronized php-1.33.0-wmf.17/extensions/GrowthExperiments/modules/help: SWAT: [[gerrit:490674|Help Panel: Fix IME broken in help panel search]] T216131 (duration: 00m 54s)

@Etonkovidova after QA, please move this back into the ready for development column so that we can implement a fix which adheres to the desired UX (focus on search input does nothing; inputting text swaps to search panel).

Checked in testwiki/kowiki - moving back to Ready for Development.

Roan's suggestion: use a single search input field, keep it on the home panel, toggle the search results (and other elements) on home panel if search is active or not.

Change 490931 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; owner: Kosta Harlan):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] [WIP] Help Panel: Move search panel into home panel

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/490931

A few things I've tried here:

1. Use a single search input field and toggle hide/show of elements on the home panel (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/490931).
   • This works but scroll is broken on the help links and the search results
2. Keep two separate search inputs and panels. Listen to compositionstart and compositionend events, and switch to the search panel when compositionend is triggered.
   • Doesn't work, compositionend seems to be triggered after ㅇㅕ, which makes sense since that forms 여, but we want composition to continue so that eventually 영 is formed.
   • Similarly, adding an event listener and checking event.isComposing won't work for the same reasons above

Probably the way forward here is to try to sort out the scrolling issues rather than spend more time working with/around composition events.

Change 490931 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Help Panel: Use single search input field for IME

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/490931

The patch is merged and should fix this issue. However, there's a minor side effect that's a little annoying. Before this patch, the title bar of the help panel would briefly get the pending animation (cross-hatching) when you focus the search input. But with this patch, this happens on every key press. More specifically, on every key press, first the title bar will become pending, then it'll immediately stop being pending again, and only then will the search input itself become pending (and stay that way until the results arrive). Probably not a big deal but it looks a bit weird.

I traced the cause in the debugger, and it seems to come from calling .executeAction( 'search' ): any call to executeAction sets the pending state on the title bar.

This is not a blocker for pushing the change to the wikis. I filed the minor side effect here: T216787, which we can triage.