338403 - Can't enter accents

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 337338

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[bilbon.sacquet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1a2) Gecko/20060517 BonEcho/2.0a2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1a2) Gecko/20060517 BonEcho/2.0a2

When I want to enter accented letters (î, ô...) with the combination of keys (^ + letter or ` + letter).
When I enter the first character of the combination the accent is underlined and blinking, I can type the second character but when I want to type anything else it doesn't work, I must select another text field and go back to the first field.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type ^ or ` or ´ on a French Mac keyboard in a textfield of Firefox 2.0a2
2. Try to type anything else letter.

Actual Results:  
You can't type accent in firefox (for the bug report I use a external text editor ...)

Expected Results:  
To be able to enter accents and accented letters.

Bug present in Firefox 2.0a2 (release and nigthly of the 17th may)

Comment 1

[Patrick]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1a2) Gecko/20060512 BonEcho/2.0a2

confirming. 

Caused by bug 16409?

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

confirmed on Mac OS X 10.2.8 (using the Dutch, Spanish and US keyboard layouts)
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1a2) Gecko/20060517 BonEcho/2.0a2

the problem remains even if you disable spellchecking for a field

Comment 3

[Charli Li (winsxs)]

WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4  Examples:
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ιθητ

Comment 4

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This sounds very much like bug 337338.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 337338 ***