268972 - Does not accept Chinese input

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[hong.cao]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In fireFox 1.0, switch input language to Chinese. Whatever you type, only
English letters appear in the text field.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open fireFox
2.switch System input language to Chinese
3.Try type in some Chinese character

Actual Results:  
Only English letter appears

Expected Results:  
Chinese character should appear

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this a problem in a current trunk build?  Also, is this a problem in Mozilla,
or just Firefox?

Comment 2

[hong.cao]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Is this a problem in a current trunk build?  Also, is this a problem in Mozilla,
> or just Firefox?

I found this is a problem that appears both in Mozilla Firefox 1.0 and
ThurderBird 0.9.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That doesn't answer either of the two questions I asked...

Comment 4

[Yung-Fong Tang]

I think this bug report is invalid. I did that every single day (with FireFox
and Chinese) and I have no problem. 

>1.Open fireFox
>2.switch System input language to Chinese
>3.Try type in some Chinese character

First of all, which 'input method' do you install for 'Chinese language'?
Remember, in win xp, if you enable a Chinese language in your input mode, you
need to pick a 'input method' and one of the input method under 'Chinese
language' is 'English keyboard' which let you do exactly as what English typing
do. you need to install somethign like 'phonetic' , 'changjie' or 'Daiyi' input
method to see chinese

Second, if you install them, after you 'select the Chinese language', you may
need to select a input method other than the 'English keyboard' in Chinese
language to see chinese typeing. 

so there are a step 2.5 you need to do - '2.5 select phonetic input method'

Comment 5

[Yung-Fong Tang]

it will say 'Chinese (Traditional) - US Keyboard" it will show up as "Chinese
(Taiwan)" in the keyboard selection bar. And that is a English input method :(
(not a mozilla bug, this is a window bug). You cannot type chinese there. If you
select a Chinese input method, then it will show some chinese name in the
keyboard menu.
Just try that in some other application like in notepad. it will prove to you it
won't type chinese there neither. 

Comment 6

[hong.cao]

I swear I had Chinese input method (MS PinYin) installed,and it worked for IE.
But it didn't work for firefox. However, after I recently installed a new
Chinese input method, firefox becomes OK too. 

So I guess this is a false alarm.