319308 - Some upper case letters (diacritical characters) don't work when caps lock is on

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Description

[Hubert Gajewski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; pl; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; pl; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5

Some upper case letters (diactrical characters) doesn't work when:
1. Caps lock is on
2. You are using keyboard layout different than US.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change your keyboard layout from US to other (PL QWERTY for example).
2. Turn on Caps Lock.
3. Open any form in Firefox or open a new message window in Thunderbird.
4. Try to type any text with diactrical characters (an example for PL QWERTY: "ZA¯Ó£Æ ¯Ó£T¡ GʦL").
Actual Results:  
(For PL QWERTY keyboard layout):
ZA¿ó³æ ¿ó³T± Gê¶L

(¯ --> ALT+Z - with right ALT pressed, type 'Z',
O --> ALT+O - with right ALT pressed, type 'O'
etc...)

Expected Results:  
(For PL QWERTY keyboard layout):
ZA¯Ó£Æ ¯Ó£T¡ GʦL

Tested on:
Firefox 1.5 pl, en-us,
Thunderbird 1.5 RC1 pl, en-us

Comment 1

[Hubert Gajewski]

DIACRITICAL (not diactrical) characters don't work, of course ;)

Comment 2

[Piotr Komoda]

Confirmed on: WinXP SP2, Tb 1.5 RC1 en-US.

Comment 3

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Confirmed.
(Windows XP Pro SP2, Firefox 1.5 pl)

Comment 4

[DJiK]

I don't know if it's related, we are several french having problems with Firefox 1.5 and a special keyboard driver to write Ç È or Œ... in Firefox 1.5 (and only here) the characters are not in capitals, it gives: ç è or œ.

Comment 5

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

This is Windows-only (Win9x/2000/XP), it WFMs on Mac and Linux.

This regressed between 2005-05-20 and 2005-05-21 (the 20050520 build is the last one when the Caps Lock + R_Alt is working correctly, the 20050521 is the first one to fail).

I suppose bug 285161 has caused this regression. In a comment in attachment 180184 [details] [diff] [review] it says:

+  // When pressing (alt|ctrl)+char, the char must be lowercase
+  // (regardless of Caps Lock or shift state).

while this is obviously not true:

Caps Lock off, R_Alt+a should result with ± (a-ogonek)
Caps Lock on,  R_Alt+a should result with ¡ (A-ogonek)
Caps Lock off, R_Alt+c should result with æ (c-acute)
Caps Lock on,  R_Alt+c should result with Æ (C-acute)

etc.

Comment 6

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

> Core, Widget/Win32

Comment 7

[Dainis Jonitis]

With patch for bug 287179 works as expected

Comment 8

[Lustermaf.Mozilla]

Bug <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304647">304647</a> is very similar.

Comment 9

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

*** Bug 340227 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Adam Guthrie]

This was fixed by bug 287179 according to comment 7. ->FIXED

Comment 11

[Hubert Gajewski]

TEST: ZA¯Ó£Æ GʦL¡ JA¬Ñ.

Now looks good.

VERIFIED ON: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060918 Minefield/3.0a1

Comment 12

[movzx]

The same problem with latest version of Firefox (2.0.0.2) - diacritical signs don't work properly with capslock.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; pl; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

Comment 13

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

movzx: This has been fixed on trunk (Firefox/Thunderbird 3), but won't be fixed in the 2.0.0.x line.