300724 - In the middle of typing a "composed" accented character, pressing backspace deletes the previous/last character too

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Marcelo Simon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+

When filling any form, after you enter any accent character (´,~,^,`,¨) and
pressing backspace it delete the last 2 characters.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to a page with a form ( this one works )
2. type something like "0123" than "´"
3. press backspace

Actual Results:  
it delete the "23" from the "0123"

Expected Results:  
it should only delete the invisible "´"

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050713
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Marcelo Simon]

I still see it with 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050713
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I see the same problem, also in the findbar.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050713
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005071321

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

Try reproducing after steps 4, 7 and 9 of the standard diagnostic.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic

Comment 5

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050918
Firefox/1.4 ID:2005091812

confirmed

so what product / component should this be ?
it fails in xul textarea-textinput and html textarea-textinput

Comment 6

[Xal]

Confirmed
This is also happening in textboxs such as the address bar or the find bar.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050918
Firefox/1.4 ID:2005091806

Comment 7

[Marcelo Simon]

I've first reported this only in Firefox, but now I saw this error in Tunderbird
also.

I don't know to which product should I change it...

Comment 8

[Marcelo Simon]

how can I tried to get this bug fixed ?
It's been a year and no dev showed up to try to fix this!!!

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

worksforme Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

Comment 10

[Marcelo Simon]

still not working for me, but it had some changes in its behavior

type "0123"
type "´" 
now it only deletes the "3"
but should only delete the invisible "´"

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

what version?  (copy your build information from help|about)
why are your accent characters "invisible"?  They shouldn't be invisible, no?
if firefox 2, does it happen if you start FF in http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

Comment 12

[Marcelo Simon]

My version is:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007111104 Minefield/3.0b2pre

I think the motif of my accented characters to be invisible is because I use a latin encoding so the accented character goes invisible "waiting" for the next letter it will be accenting ( like in é )

Comment 13

[Marcelo Simon]

I can see this in utf-8 and in Western (iso 8859-1), 
This bug also bites in safe mode ...

Also I have my language set to Portuguese in the windows panel control

Comment 14

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Serge, do you also see this in whichever browser you are using?

Comment 15

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007111204 Minefield/3.0b2pre] (nightly) (W2Ksp4)
[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007111202 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre] (nightly) (W2Ksp4)

(new) Bug confirmed, per comment 10:
on W2K fr, with French keyboard; tried "^¨~" accent keys.

I noticed 3 different behaviors:
B1) "Mozilla" apps: Forgets the accent key; then removes the previous character.
B2) MS-Explorer, MS-Notepad, OpenOffice: Forgets the accent key; and leaves the string as is.
B3) MS-WordPad, NotePad++: Removes the previous character; then adds the accent character itself.

I'm no expert, but I would think: B1 is wrong, B2 correct, B3 odd.

(system wide) Workaround: press "space" before "backspace" ... The accent character itself will be added then removed :->

(I had a look but didn't find any generic "Keyboard Handling" component around :-/)

Comment 16

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

"editor" should be a close fit.  thanks Serge.

Comment 17

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

for intl users I would expect this to be more than an annoyance.

Comment 18

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Simon's probably interested in this. We could take a patch, but it won't block.

Comment 19

[Lichti]

same problem with SeaMonkey 1.1.7 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7)
Deleting an accent (not an accentuated character) by typing backspace deletes the two previous characters as well.

Comment 21

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)(Got a cold so that using sick leaves)]

Moving all keyboard/IME open bugs to DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling component.