159733 - the comma on the numeric keyboard doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 108170

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Stefan Brandner]

When I activate the numbers at the numeric keypad the comma doesn't work.
Instead I get the pipe symbol '|'.
I don't think it is language dependent because I tried it with two
different laguages and the problem appears on both.

I heard it doesn't happen with the windows version.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Testing with a current CVS build, Linux, i get a periode, not a comma.
The comma is accessed by pressing shift+Del (or NumLock first, then del.)
Norwegian Keyboard layout. Works fine otherwise.

Bug as i see it has nothing to do with mailnews though: it can be seen in all
applications i use - not only mozilla.

Reporter: Can you confirm that your other applications show the comma comma
correct (and not a |) when you use the numeric keypad?

Comment 2

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

reassign to xpapp

Comment 3

[Stefan Brandner]

I have KDE 3.0.2 installed and the comma works for all KDE programs as well as Open Office.  Mozilla is the only program which shows this behaviour.  

Comment 4

[Kenneth Herron]

Stefan, are you still experiencing this problem? Can you reproduce it with a
current copy of mozilla?

What locale is your system configured to use?

Comment 5

[Stefan Brandner]

I was able to fix the problem by changing ~/.Xmodmap

I added following line:

keycode 91 = KP_Delete comma

Now the comma works!

Comment 6

[Jason Bassford]

*** Bug 200262 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Jason Bassford]

BTW: I believe that this bug was resolved incorrectly.  Either it has nothing to
do with Mozilla and should have been marked INVALID, or there actually is a
Mozilla problem and it should have remained open so that it could be properly
fixed (rather than resorting to workarounds).  I suspect that INVALID is more
appropriate, but am not certain.

Comment 8

[Björn]

This bug is very much alive in Linux.
I have reproduced the | instead of , on 3 Linux computers. It applies to Firefox
0.8 and T-bird 0.5

I have also reproduced the bug in the latest nightly Firefox for Linux.
All other applications on all 3 computers render the comma correctly, except for
the Mozillas.

Comment 9

[Martin Creutziger [:MMx]]

reopening bug, awaiting more information from affected users

Comment 10

[Jochen Schweizer]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 - bug
still exists
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 - bug disappeared

both tested under Kernel 2.4.22

Changing of /etc/X11/Xmodmap had no effect

Comment 11

[Martin Creutziger [:MMx]]

Jochen, could you please test this with a recent nighty and/or 1.7RC2/1.8a1?
1.6 is a little old to be of any use here...

Comment 12

[Björn]

(In reply to comment #11)
Today I downloaded the latest Firefox nightly and the problem persists.

Here I type "1/2" with decimal comma: 0|5

All other applications are fine. (Mandrake 10, KDE, 2.6-kernel)

Comment 13

[Dominik Scherer]

This bug is still bugging me! ;) Running Firefox 0.9 RC1 on Mandrake Linux 10
with KDE 3.2 and a German keyboard. Only the comma on the num pad is not
working, every other key works correctly. Only on Linux, no problems in Windows.

This is the output i get from my numeric pad:
/*-
789+
456
123
0|

It SHOULD be:
/*-
789+
456
123
0,

Comment 14

[Martin Creutziger [:MMx]]

might this be related to KDE perhaps?

Could somebody in a GNOME enviroment please check this bug with a recent nighty
of both Firefox and the Mozilla suite and report back?
Thanks.

Comment 15

[Jarkko]

Mozilla should use "," instead of "|" as separator char. This happens when
KP_Separator is pressed.

Please fix this now that you know the cause!

My versions:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510
Gnome 2.6.0

Comment 16

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108170 ***