195028 - Cannot input accented characters in composer and browser forms

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176514

(Core :: Disability Access APIs, defect)

Description

[Geraldo Veiga]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211

Keyboard entry of accented characters no longer works after upgrading to 1.3b.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Define a  "Compose Key" via xmodmap
2. Open Composer
3. Try entering an accented character.

Actual Results:  
Attempted to enter "á"  and get "'a".  The compose key is ignored. Under RH8,
you can also redefine the keyboard as "US Iternational" (similar to MSWindows).
 Input of the "Composed: characters is still not possible.
.


Expected Results:  
I recently switched from Mozilla 1.3a to 1.3b.  Keyboard entry worked in 1.3a.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To blizzard.  This is already filed.

How I wish for a "gtk2/xft/rh8 breakage" component....

Comment 2

[Stephen Norris]

Where is the bug filed? I'd like to track the main one.

For the record, this happens in RH8.1 beta too.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

If I knew offhand, I would have just marked this duplicate.  Feel free to search
bugzilla.  ;)

Comment 4

[Stephen Norris]

Tried that already :) Buggered if I could find it either.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

<sigh>.  You have to search resolved bugs too; then you find already-marked
duplicates....

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176514 ***

Comment 6

[Stephen Norris]

Eh? That's a duplicate of this bug? I'd never have worked that out. I also don't
understand what you mean by your comment - the thing this is apparently a
duplicate of is marked as NEW.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I mean that other duplicates of that bug are clearly duplicates of this one, so
if you searched resolved bugs you would have found them....