10901 - [PP] [key]Win32 - Dead keys on Swiss German keyboard do not work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 6053

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P1)

Description

[beans]

It is impossible to type e.g. the ~ character in the location bar.
Cut & paste works...

Comment 1

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

I have to talk to the widget gurus about this. Accepting.

Comment 2

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

Cc'ing the widget gurus. Can I get some info on this? Thanks,

Comment 3

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

can you tell me more about what you mean by *impossible* to type. I just now
tried http://www.best.com/~law and I could go to the page. This was on my NT
box.

Comment 4

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

Can QA elaborate on what characters can not be typed in. As mentioned in my
previous message, I could type in as well as successfully visit a page that has
~ in it.

Comment 5

[beans]

I'm still unable to type this ~ character into the location bar. At the
moment I'm using the Milestone 9 build - sorry, I downloaded a M10 build
but it failed to start :)

Comment 6

[leger]

Updating QA Contact.

Comment 7

[cpratt]

I'm not having any problems typing the tilde (~) using the US-International
keyboard layout, Windows NT 4 SP 5, and the September 20, 1999 commercial
non-debug build of apprunner.

beans, I will mark this bug as worksforme in 24 hours if I do not hear back from
you. I need to know:

- what language version of Windows 98 you are using
- which keyboard layout and language you are using (eg Swiss German keyboard
layout)
- if this works in later builds for you, eg a nightly build

Thanks!

Comment 8

[beans]

>what language version of Windows 98 you are using
I'm using the version 4.10.1998 (no service pack or update)

- which keyboard layout and language you are using
Language: German (Switzerland)
Layout: German (Switzerland)

- if this works in later builds for you, eg a nightly build
I've just downloaded the 1999092112 build and it doesn't work

I can type that tilde if I insert it "manually" (means 'alt' + code).
There are some other special characters that don't work like ^`´\{}[]¦@

Comment 9

[cpratt]

Tja, das ist ja etwas peinlich... radha, dead keys on the Swiss German layout
are NOT working. For example, what's on a US keyboard the +/= key is a
circumflex/` modifier (dead) key. Because it doesn't work with apprunner,
characters such as ô and è cannot be typed. The same goes for the ]/} key - when
Shift is NOT pressed it works as a dead key, and does NOT work in apprunner. And
the AltGR key never works, which means you can't type characters such as '@',
making mail pretty well unusable.

This would seem to be related to other bugs concerning dead keys on other
keyboard layouts.

Comment 10

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

Re-assigning to tague, since this looks like a dup of another on he has.

Comment 11

[tague]

these came in too late in the m11 cycle to make it, moving to m12

Comment 12

[Frank Tang]

tague is doomed. Reassign this to myself

Comment 13

[Frank Tang]

Mark it assigned M11. Add tague and buster to the cc list.

Comment 14

[cpratt]

Is this a duplicate of bug 6053? Both have to do with dead keys on Win32
keyboard layouts...

Comment 15

[Frank Tang]

fix in keyEvent_19991004_BRANCH landing

Comment 16

[cpratt]

Not fixed in the 1999101411 build. Reopening and resolving as a duplicate.

Comment 17

[cpratt]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6053 ***