203370 - unaccented letters come out when I input french accents

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176514

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric Buist]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313

My keyboard is configured for Canadian French layout. When I want to type french
accents, I often have to use two keys, such as backquote followed by e.
Normally, an accented letter comes out but with Mozilla 1.3 under RedHat 9,
built with Gtk2, only US ASCII unaccented letters come out. I tried to shut
Mozilla down, delete my .mozilla directory and start it back again, but without
any result. When I use Mozilla 1.2 that comes with RedHat 9, there are no
problems. I experienced no difficulty with other Gtk2 applications or Mozilla
1.3 for Windows.
I am also unable to get a backquote alone or a hat.
The problem arises within any Mozilla input field.
Mozilla 1.3 is still capable of displaying accents, but cannot on my setup input
them.
The only workaround would be to copy/paste contents from other applications.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mozilla 1.3 RPM build with Gtk2 support
2. Start Mozilla
3. Try to type some french grave accents in the URL bar, in the compose window
or in ay form text field.

Actual Results:  
We will only get standard ASCII characters.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should display the accented characters I typed.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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