110344 - Compose Key to enter 8-bit characters does not work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 81749

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Jonas Bygdén]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011014
BuildID:    0.9.5


On a Sun keyboard there's a key called Compose, situated right of the spacebar
(between the Meta key and AltGr).

I use this key to generate (among others) Swedish characters like å, ä, ö, é
etc. on a US keyboard (Compose " a for ä etc.)

In Mozilla I just get *a, "a, "o, 'e etc.

This URL point into docs.sun.com and shows how the key's supposed to work:

http://docs.sun.com/ab2/coll.8.41/CDEUG/%40Ab2PageView/24509?DwebQuery=compose+OR+key+OR+sequences&oqt=compose+key+sequences&Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
See description

Actual Results:  See description

Expected Results:  See description

If it's interesting, Netscape 6 behaves exactly the same.

Comment 1

[ji]

I don't have a Sun keyboard with a linux system. 
Katakai-san, do you see this on Solaris?
Jonas, do you have this problem on HTML Composer Or editing area on Navigator
window, like URL bar and search field on http://home.netscape.com?

Comment 2

[Masaki Katakai]

Thank you for filing bug report.

I understand this is a bug of Solaris xlib not Mozilla bug.
It's dup of bug 81749. Please wait Solaris patch.

Hotta-san, can you close as dup?

Comment 3

[nhottanscp]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81749 ***

Comment 4

[ji]

Marked it as verified.

Comment 5

[Alexander Poquet]

Hi.  I run Solaris 8 on an Ultra10 (sun4u), with all the recommended patches
(as of last week).  I'm running Mozilla 0.9.9 (2002031103).  I also have this
problem (regarding the compose key.)  It does not manifest itself in any other
application, and I do not believe it is the same bug as 81749 -- I can copy and
paste accented characters into Mozilla (and they display correctly).  I simply
cannot use the compose key correctly.

I do not believe this is a bug in Solaris XLib: my compose key works correctly 
in other (XLib) applications.  I make heavy use of it.

Also, the compose key does not work anywhere in Mozilla, including the URI
box, not just in forms.  I haven't checked Mail & such.  I don't use those.

Comment 6

[Jonas Bygdén]

Well, even though you don't think that's the problem, check out Solaris 8 patch
108773 anyway, because it solved the problem for me. At least revision -13 is
needed (current revision is -14).

Comment 7

[Alexander Poquet]

Thanks for posting the patch.  After applying it patch 108773-14 [1] (as 
suggested) the problem was fixed.

  [1] http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/patchDownload.pl?target=108773&method=h

Comment 8

[Roland Mainz]

Is there a Solaris 2.7 version of the patch ?

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 142402 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***