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The autocompletion stuff for sitelinks and selecting a site interferes with selecting Japanese Wikipedia as the site.  This is a problem on Firefox and not on Chrome.

The autocompletion stuff can interfere (on both Firefox and Chrome) with selecting wikipedia pages to add as site links.

The problem is that to type 日本語　(Japanese) with the Microsoft IME (also on macbook) method you set Hirigana as the language input but essentially are typing syllables with latin characters "ni-ho-nn-go".  When you type "ni" it will be に and then type にほ (ni-ho) and then にほん (ni-ho-nn) and it figures out you are trying to type 日本語 and has it's own autosuggest. You can choose that or type out the full "ni-ho-nn-go", hit space and then enter to confirm it and you have 日本語

With the Wikibase autocomplete widget, you begin to type "ni" and then it autosuggests languages that begin with "n".  If I type "j", then I can select Japanese and that's the only way in Firefox.  Typing "ni-ho-nn-go" to choose Japanese works in Chrome with the Wikibase widgets.

For sitelinks, if you don't type Japanese fast enough, you get Japanese mixed with latin character suggestions, such as "ちーAGE and ASKA" and then can't choose anything. This happens on Chrome and Firefox.


The autocomplete widget is not a problem at all with Arabic, as it's very similar to typing in English (but right-to-left).  I think Hebrew and Farsi are okay too, but am not familiar with other languages such as Hindi or Chinese to say if this is an issue with any other languages.