239837 - Space bar press does not register for page down when IME/FEP is in Japanese input mode

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 113187

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Hideki Saito]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040331 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040331 Firefox/0.8

Normally, pressing space bar will function as page down, however, when IME is in
Japanese input mode, it is not regonized as space bar press, therefore, it does
not function.

This happens either when Find as you type mode is on or not.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open any pages with more than two pages.
2.Change IME to Japanese input mode
3.Press space (make sure you are not selecting any input boxes, etc.)

Actual Results:  
Nothing;
In some environment, it may cause beep to play. (Confirmed on Mac)

Expected Results:  
Recognize this input as page down.
(This is the way other browser works, as well)

Comment 1

[Hideki Saito]

It seems like the reason the reason caused by is that when in Japanese mode, space bar input is 
recognized as double byte "space" input.

Instead, it should look for pure space button press, not what being inputed.
Likewise, this should not trigger find as you type mode, as well.

Right now, to work around this problem, one has to go through different steps:
1. Turn IME off / or change to English input mode
2. Press space bar to scroll
3. (Optionally) turn Japanese mode back on.

Comment 2

[PikeUK]

This issue has already been reported in Bug 113187, please add any new
information you have to that bug, thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113187 ***