120334 - Can't type Hebrew using a Unicode keyboard in web forms

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Shoshannah Forbes]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.7+)
Gecko/20020116
BuildID:    20022011603

I have a Hebrew (unicode) Keyboard installed. However, when I attempt to switch
to it in order to write in web forms, it is unavalible

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to any Hebrew form
2. Try to switch to the Hebrew keyboard


Actual Results:  it is unavalible

Expected Results:  it should be avalible

the Hebrew keyboard I use is defined in the system actaully as "unicode". You
can get a copy here:
http://forums.ort.org.il/files/307/1020363/4693708.sit

Comment 1

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Attachment: A screen shot of the bug

Comment 2

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This isn't exactly a dupe of bug 119860, but my remarks in
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119860#c2 apply here also.

Mac specific Bidi -> ftang

Comment 3

[Frank Tang]

this is related to TSM 1.5. somehow the TSM 1.5 unicode keyboard work I put in
are disabled recently. cc [e-mail] and [e-mail]

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

Did this ever work on OSX?
I'm wondering if we need to fix this:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/widget/src/mac/nsMacMessagePump.cpp#679
or something similar

Comment 5

[Shoshannah Forbes]

With current builds, this sometimes works and sometime not. Not sure about why each.

Comment 6

[Shoshannah Forbes]

*** Bug 154626 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Shoshannah Forbes]

did some more investigation: it seems that I am only able to switch to a unicode
keyboard when there are no tabs open. The moment I have more then one tab, the
unicode keyboard becoms unavalibe. Since I use tabbed browsing a lot, this is a
real pain...

Comment 8

[Greg K.]

Shoshannah, are you able to use other Unicode keyboard layouts such as Extended
Roman? I noted in my bug 115887 that when Unicode keyboard layouts become
unavailable, putting Mozilla in the background, then bringing it back to the
foreground seems to make them available again.

Comment 9

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Mac OS 10.2 now come with Hebrew support "out of the box"- but Hebrew uses a
unicode keyboard (indenticl to my hakced one), so this is getiing more major.

Comment 10

[Greg K.]

Shoshannah, any response to my comment #8?

Comment 11

[Greg K.]

Frank, in regards to your comment 3, should your old bug 23363 be reopened?

Comment 12

[Frank Tang]

this should work. 
do you still have the problem ?
we know flash have some problem with ime or keyevent. make sure you do not have
a flash display when you test it (flash not needed in the same page, as long as
it is initial but not shutdown, it has problem right now.)

Comment 13

[Frank Tang]

mark this bug as invalid to force retest. please reopen if you can reproduce
this bug . I cannot