279429 - can't type euro sign

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 279105

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050119 Firefox/1.0+

this regressed between the 20050118_10 and 20050119_13 build

repro:
1.Open Firefox
2.Try to type the Euro sign (ctrl+alt+5) in an input or textarea (window or chrome)
3.Nothing happens, it doesn't display
4.Go to a forum and type ctrl+alt+5 in the message area, notice it remains empty
5.press preview, the Euro sign show
6.however, on the chat I use, it shows the message as €

Comment 1

[Benjamin Lebsanft]

€Same happens on XP using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050121 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

I can't reproduce the bug right now because ctrl-alt-5 doesn't give me a euro
sign on any of my installed keyboards, but the regression window suggests this
is a dupe of bug 279105.

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

I found that I could type the Euro sign using ctrl-alt-e and reproduce the bug
in current builds. The patch in bug 279105 fixes this problem too (128 is the
Euro sign in Windows-1252 encoding).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 279105 ***