Not sure I like the framing. VE mangles IME input horribly and horrendously, not the other way around may be more accurate.

We can disable jQuery.IME in content editable divs of VisualEditor because it cannot handle input methods. Which class identifies editable divs of VisualEditor?

Just to be clear, VE and jQuery.IME are making incompatible assumptions about the javascript event sequences expected when entering text in an IME.

To be fair, that's not really anyone's fault because (a) de jure, the standards are still emerging, and (b) de facto, every single browser/OS/IME combination seems to generate a different weird and wonderful sequence of events.

We're currently refactoring the VE CE Surface code to make as few assumptions as possible about IME events. I expect we can do work from the jQuery.IME side too, to bring the two into line.

Change 88727 had a related patch set uploaded by Santhosh:
Disable jquery.ime for VE till IME support is improved

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/88727

Change 88727 merged by jenkins-bot:
Disable jquery.ime for VE till IME support is improved

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/88727

Patch merged. I think you can deploy HEAD of master of ULS whenever it's convenient for you guys, James. There have been no functional changes but this one in the past week.

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Patch merged. I think you can deploy HEAD of master of ULS whenever it's
convenient for you guys, James. There have been no functional changes but
this one in the past week.

Thank you, Siebrand and Santhosh. We will probably just ride the train on Thursday rather than introduce an out-of-sequence deployment if that's OK.

We will probably just ride the train on
Thursday rather than introduce an out-of-sequence deployment if that's OK.

Preferred.