331332 - Alt+keypad 7 loads home page even if you're typing a character code

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Thierry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

I've Firefox in french, but as I speak hungarian, I need sometime to write with specific characters wich don't exist in french. I use the fonction ALT + 0237 for example to have a long i (with an accent in place of the point). When I use this character, the browser delete my page and go to the home page of the browser

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://www.google.com
2.try to have a long i by using ALT + 0237


Actual Results:  
then you have the browser's home page

Expected Results:  
give a long i (í) (I did have this long i by copying and pasting another)

there is other problems with this combination of ALT + numbers... It's impossible to have a long o (ó) because after typing ALT + 024, the borwser is going to the previous page, and the combination for ó is ALT + 0243...

Comment 1

[Justin Kerk]

Confirming, I see this with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060322 Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2006032205
The í appears for an instant but then my home page comes up.

The reason this is happening is that the 7 key on the keypad is also the "Home" key, and the Alt-Home combination is the shortcut to bring up your home page in the browser.

Comment 2

[Thierry]

Yes but how can I get this specifics characters without using ALT combination?

Comment 3

[Justin Kerk]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Yes but how can I get this specifics characters without using ALT combination?

Go to the Windows Control Panel, Regional and Language Settings, Languages tab, Details button. There you can add a Hungarian keyboard layout so you can switch between that and your normal keyboard layout. (Or try the US International layout which lets you enter most accented characters by typing ' " ^ or ~ followed by the letter.)

Comment 4

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.