257310 - international input (tested: Japanese, Chinese) does not work in all input fields

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256464

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Sam Goldman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040823 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040823 Firefox/0.9.1+

When typing Japanese or Chinese into any input box, either part of a web site or
part of the GUI, the results are not as expected, making it impossible to write
Japanese or Chinese into Firefox directly (workaround: type into TextEdit, copy
and paste).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set OS X input method to Japanese or Chinese
2. Type something in the correct fashion
3. Try and read it
Actual Results:  
Firefox's behavior is too unusual to explain, but basically it doesn't work. For
example, if I press the keys K, A, T, A, K, A, N, and A in that order, kカカtカ
タカタkカタカカタカnカタカナ is produced. The proper result would be カタカナ.

Expected Results:  
* When typing Japanese, one writes the romanization for a sound, which is then
replaced by the correct Japanese symbol. Then, at the end of a block of text,
the input system is able to replace the proper parts with Japanese Kanji.
* Using Chinese input (pinyin method), one types the hanyu pinyin romanization
and as they do, a menu is created/altered to show the Chinese characters which
can be represented.

I believe the behavior was correct in previous versions of Firefox.

Comment 1

[Jungshik Shin]

It's broken on 2004-08-23, but fixed later. Try a recent nightly. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256464 ***