218461 - Method for entering diacritic characters into address bar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[Konrad]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

In few days in Poland we will be able to register domain names with polish
diacritic characters (like ±, ê, ó etc.) and as I know soon it will be able in
other languages in other countries. 

Typing url with polish symbols could be quite tough for somebody who don`t use
charset iso-8859-2 and don`t have polish keybord installed. The same problem
will be with other languages.

I invented to add two buttons with special characters near address bar to easy
add those kind of signs in url field. You can use (like I used in an example)
the same feature which is used in Mozilla Composer in Insert > Special character
(see attachment or www.vivamozilla.civ.pl/diacritic/dia.png).

This would be very good thing if Mozilla Firebird would be first browser with
support for diacritic synbols in url field, regarding to the future of domains.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Konrad]

Attachment: An example how we can add diacritic support to url field

Comment 2

[Konrad]

Comment on attachment 130977 [details]
An example how we can add diacritic support to url field

I hope this is not problem that i show example using Mozilla, not Mozilla
Firebird

Comment 3

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

Confirming.

Comment 4

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

Mozilla already supports Internationalized Domain Names, check out e.g.
http://www.nunames.nu/eu-lang-test.htm

but what you are proposing - a small list that e.g. German users can choose e.g.
Vietnamese characters is a Good Thing. 

However, I personally think users should be able to turn this on or off.

Comment 5

[Konrad]

To clarify: this attachment is just only photo manipulated screenshot of
Navigator, I don`t know any extension for Mozilla which can work and look  like this

Comment 6

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

Suggesting INVALID. It's enhancement and it can be extension -> go to mozdev.org
with such things.
As for me it messes interface, i don't think that this idea (of diacratic
characters) will be widely used. I'd like to see You trying to type URL address
in chineese or korean characters, even with Your system.

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

Proposing to WONTFIX this - there are so many languages and charsets that this
would always be only a partial solution for a subset of languages. As such, it
would be better implemented it as an extension, if at all. Generally, how to
input text is the task of the OS and Mozilla's task is to handle all the text it
gets in a reasonable way :)
BTW - for most OS there are either OS extensions or addon programs that let you
enter accented characters or different language characters without the
respective keyboard. 

Comment 8

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

WONTFIX.
This is something the OS should take care of.

Comment 9

[Roland Mainz]

jshin:
Do you agree with the WONTFIX ?

Comment 10

[Minh Nguyễn]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Suggesting INVALID. It's enhancement and it can be extension -> go to mozdev.org
> with such things.
> As for me it messes interface, i don't think that this idea (of diacratic
> characters) will be widely used. I'd like to see You trying to type URL address
> in chineese or korean characters, even with Your system.

Even with Vietnamese, this kind of system is quite clumsy. Right now I'm making
an "IME pad" for Vietnamese that currently shows up as a sidebar. I think an
actual IME-like feature would be a lot better than a menu. There's already
plenty of JavaScript code written for this purpose. See
http://gkws0.informatik.uni-leipzig.de:8080/vietuni.js for an example.