[kayser]

If I start typing a chat message beginning with a non-standard character (I have not done any comprehensive research in the area, but in my case it's å, ä and ö, but I suppose it goes the same for many other, like ü) the chat box will not be initiated by the first character, resulting in that it is left out.

Of course it's not so much work to press 'Home' and fill it in, but it would be nice if it was fixed eventually.

Thanks for an incrediable effort in making and maintaining BBO --- and keeping it free.

[arrows]

Yeah, I think this is a problem too,

When I type some non-English language(BTW, it's Chinese).
the char bar will not appear automatically.

I think there's simple solution for this.

Since I guess everybody use mouses to play the game, why not leave the
char bar always active until the user explicitly close it. (Right now it
is closed automatically when user hit the [return] key), so that whatever
the user types goes into the chat bar.