201376 - [GTK2] Can't input caret or umlaut in form/editor elements

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176514

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Michel Valdrighi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030404 Phoenix/0.5+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030409 Phoenix/0.5+

Problem: I just can't input a caret (^) or an umlaut in any form element and
even in the Mail Compose window.

I have asked for someone to reproduce the problem in #mozillazine, but no-one
managed to.
This leads me to believe it has something to do with my keyboard layout (French
Latin 1, I think, that's the French one with the Euro sign) since the caret and
umlaut share the same key, or the locale I use (though changing from fr_FR@euro
to en_US didn't fix the problem).
I don't think that it's a problem with the OS (RedHat 8) or the GTK2 environment
because I can input these signs just well in other GTK2-based apps.

This has happened for as long as I have been building Mozilla with
--enable-default-toolkit=gtk2, and has happened in Mozilla, Phoenix, and Minotaur.

I'm filing that as 'Major' because it just makes it impossible to type stuff in
French when we can't type 'crêpe' or 'Noël' without having to copy-paste it from
another app...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get a French keyboard and/or just change the keyboard layout to match that of
a French keyboard.
2. Start Mozilla (or any Moz-based app that uses Mozilla's GTK2 widgets)
3. Try to type the word 'crêpe'.
Actual Results:  
The word will be typed as 'crepe', without the accent, because typing on the ^
key is just ignored.

Expected Results:  
The word should have been 'crêpe'.

Everytime I build, I use a fresh clean directory and build in an obj- directory.
Here is the .mozconfig I use to build Phoenix:

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-@CONFIG_GUESS@
mk_add_options MOZ_PHOENIX=1
export MOZ_PHOENIX=1
ac_add_options --enable-crypto
ac_add_options --enable-xft
ac_add_options --enable-xpctools
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-Wno-deprecated -O3 -march=athlon-xp
-mcpu=athlon-xp"
ac_add_options --disable-mailnews
ac_add_options --disable-ldap
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --enable-extensions=default,-inspector,-irc,-venkman
ac_add_options --enable-plaintext-editor-only

Comment 1

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

This should have been fixed a couple of days ago.  If new build from the tip
doesn't fix your problems, please re-open.

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