Hi, its a little bit silly but I have been doing courses on my macbook with czech keyboard and Ive been typing the [] brackets with 2 keys “option” + the [] keys and it seems to stop working over the weekend. Did something change? On all other websites and on all other apps on my mac I can type the [] with the option key just fine, even here on the forum its without problems, but when I try to use these two keys on my czech keyboard inside the exercises, it doesnt work and it doesnt type the brackets. Its super annoying :((( I dont want to user american keyboard just to be able to do the courses 
I want to keep using the czech one and use two keys to type the []. Any ideas?
what challenges are giving issues? can you verify if it happens anywhere or just in a few challenges?
We use an open-source editor from Microsoft called monaco. Here is a playground: https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/playground.html
Can you do a quick confirmation, if the issue is also reproducible on the site above?
If yes, then that should narrow things down for us to investigate.
Thanks.
I just tested it in monaco editors playground and same issue there also. Looks like we found a bug.
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Thanks for the quick detective work. Do you mind reporting to them if there isn’t an open issue not already? As for us, we are limited by a fix upstream.
@barbora.martinkova this may be a limitation that is beyond our control, at least for now. We would recommend using an alternative keyboard if you can.
Thanks.
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There is an open issue but it was opened a long time back.
Some keybindings don’t work with non US-Layouts · Issue #1233 · microsoft/monaco-editor (github.com)
Also the issue isn’t present in VSCode.
Oh wow, that’s opened by the GitPod team (Sven is the founder). We should probably add a fresh issue first add a friendly reminder just in case this is forgotten by the team.
Wow, I dint know that. I’ll open up an issue for this.
Thanks so much everyone for such quick reactions! its so weird because I would swear it worked just last week 
Thanks everyone 
I hope they resolve it soon
I’ve opened an issue to monaco-editor(Not able to type certain characters in non-US keyboards · Issue #2533 · microsoft/monaco-editor · GitHub). I opened a new issue as the the link I had sent above had been about the keybinds for commands in the editor. In our case it’s about typing characters itself.
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Heads up, this has been fixed and you should be able to use the square brackets in our platform.
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awesome, yes it works
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