186798 - Unable to enter some special characters into AB fields (non-ASCII)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 191184

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

I just noticed today that entering some special characters into AB fields enters
another character instead of the correct one. I'll attach a picture with
examples. I use Mozilla 2002122508 on Windows XP. All locale settings are set to
Slovenian.

Reproducable: always

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla
2. Open Address Book
3. Add new card to address book
4. Start filling out the fields

What happens:
If you enter some special characters from our keyboard wrong character appears
instead.

What should happen:
Entered characters should appear correctly.

Comment 1

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

Attachment: List of wrong characters

In the filed First there are characters I typed into Notepad and copy&pasted
them here (copy& paste works just fine and characters are shown and save just
fine).
In the field Last there is a list of above characters that are shown when I
type the characters from field First using keyboard.
Note that the eight character produces nothing, just an invisible character.

Comment 2

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

I'm using build 2003010508 now and this still isn't fixed!

Comment 3

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

I also see the same problem when trying to enter characters into fields of the
dialog you get if you go to:
Preferences > Navigator > Helper Applications > New Type...
Should I open another bug aboz this?

Using Mozilla 2003011708 on Windows XP Pro.

Comment 4

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

And all fields of the Mail & Newsgroups account settings dialog also have the
same problem.

Comment 5

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

I found another place where I see this problem.

If I try to open pages where you have to enter password to view the page you get
a dialog to enter username and password. Well on this dialog I also can't enter
some local/special characters.

Comment 6

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

I think someone has the same problem as I have. the only difference is that he
is trying to enter hebrew text. Take a look at bug 188704. Maybe these two are
duplicates?

Comment 7

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Not serious enough to hold 1.3beta for.

Comment 8

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

Not serious enough for english users but extremely serious for all non english
users.

Comment 9

[Andrew Hagen]

Did this work in an older release?

Comment 10

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

It works just fine in Mozilla release 1.2.1 (build 20021130). And it doesn't
work anymore in release 1.3a (build 20021212). So I guess some patch between
these two caused this to stop working right. I will try to find more accurate
nighly builds so that in one it will work and in the next one it doesn't work
anymore.

Comment 11

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

Just one question. Is there a nightlies archive that goes back so much? If there
is none then I will not be able to check the nighlies out.

Comment 12

[Andrew Hagen]

*** Bug 189162 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[marina]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 191184 ***

Comment 14

[Jure Repinc (JLP)]

This appears to be fixed in nightly 2003020608.