178721 - [Customized xmodmap] Assignning keysymbols with numerics is not respected

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P3)

Description

[Manfred Pohler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

I have a german localization and I modified the file Xmodmap to be able to
input latin2-specific characters by keyboard.
I use KDE and in other applications this works.
The variable LC_CTYPE=iso-8859-2.
To input latin2-characters in the mail-editor I have to input them in another
editor (or a xterminal) and then copy them into mozilla's mail-editor.
Trying to input them directly by keyboard in the mail-editor produces the
corresponding latin-1 characters.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.input the defined keys for special characters
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
ºþãªÞÃ

Expected Results:  
ºþãªÞÃ

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

-> editor:core

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

hmmm, *maybe* this is event handling, not editor, not really sure.

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

actually, intl sounds even better

Comment 4

[Yuying Long]

Does this only happen on mail editor or both mail and html editor (Composer)?

Could you please give us the detail steps that how to input latin-2 characters
by keyboard in linux?

Comment 5

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Are you using RedHat Linux? Others have reported problems with xmodmap in
Mozilla under RedHat, e.g. bug 101279.

Comment 6

[Yuying Long]

Reporter sent out email said it also happenes on Composer.  Modify the summary.

Comment 7

[Manfred Pohler]

I found out the reason for the problem:

In the file Xmodmap I assigned the keysymbols by numeric values.
Changing the assignments to symbolic names fixed the problem.
I think mozilla takes the characters from the Latin1-character map, when the
keysymbols are assigned by numeric values, regardless the value of LC-CTYPE.
This should be changed.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Carsten, I'm at a loss to test comment 7 and retarget if needed.

Comment 9

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

Moving all open Keyboard/IME handling bugs to DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling component.