151110 - Cannot enter "international" text with accents or diacriticals in HTML text form fields

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Jørgen Nørgaard]

There seems to be a problem with accents (grave, aigu, umlaut, tilde) what ever
the proper names are.

The problem is the accents, not getting characters withn the option key - it works.


Mac OS X 10.1.5, powerbook G4, keyboard localised for Danish layout.

Comment 1

[Gilles Durys]

Here with a Belgian keyboard.
The problem arises when you have to type accented chars with a combination of
two keys : like ê (first type '^' then type 'e').
This only happens in HTML forms (url bar is ok)

Comment 2

[Winnie Lam]

http://mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1103 is a dupe of this bug.

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

Revising Summary.

Comment 4

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

-> brade

Comment 5

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Also, I am unable to switch to a unicode keyboard (in my case, Hebrew unicode
keyboard) at all. Should I file a separate bug for that?

Comment 6

[Greg K.]

Go ahead, Shoshannah. Post a note here with that bug number.

Comment 7

[Kathleen :Brade]

Attachment: first patch (allows for text entry but doesn't yet do selection)

Comment 8

[Kathleen :Brade]

comments on patch? review?

Comment 9

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

+- (long) conversationIdentifier;

shouldn't this return |self| rather than 12345? The docs say the text view
should return its address unless they share the same text storage, which i don't
think these do...or do they?

+  NSRange tmp;
+  tmp = mMarkedRange;
+  return tmp;

why copy it before returning it, which makes another copy?

should we land the unimplemented stub of the NSTextInput protocol or wait for
its completion before landing? otherwise r=pink.

Comment 10

[Kathleen :Brade]

this was just checked in

Comment 11

[Jørgen Nørgaard]

Great!

Works fine in the daily/nightly build.

Comment 12

[Jørgen Nørgaard]

This problem has returned with build 2002091704 (or perhaps before, saw it with
this build)


Tried to enter e.g. ä in Google.

Comment 13

[Shoshannah Forbes]

wfm in  build 2002091904 on osx 10.2.1

Comment 14

[Jørgen Nørgaard]

Does not work for me. Also on 10.2.1, but the problem was there before in 10.2

Could it have to do with non-US keyboard?

To simplify, I can't enter accents or diacriticals in text fields, like this
field (Additional Comments) on http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151110

Build ID: 200209200

Comment 15

[Kathleen :Brade]

Attachment: diff to check length of event characters before creating gecko events

Comment 16

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Comment on attachment 100432 [details] [diff] [review]
diff to check length of event characters before creating gecko events

r=sfraser

Comment 17

[Kathleen :Brade]

fix checked in