478752 - Cannot type alternative - AltGr - letters in main text field of Bespin

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Skywriter Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[christiangoebel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6
Build Identifier: 

I created an account on the Bespin homepage to play around with it.
When typing in the main text field I discovered the following behaviour:
I could not enter the alternative letters (glyphs/signs) into the main text field. By alternative I mean letters for which I need to hold the AtlGr-key on my keyboard. 
(On a German Keyboard the AltGr-key is right of the space-bar)
On a German keyboard this means that I am not able to type the following signs:
{[]}\~|
This is obviously dramatic for an IDE.  :-) 

By the way, I could type these letters in the console of Bespin - but not in the main text-field.   

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login on the Bespin Testpage   (Currently 0.11)
2. open a text file
3. try to type something like {[]}\~|  with a German keyboard
Actual Results:  
The expected letters do not show up. 


This happens on 
WinXP, SP3, German Keyboard, Firefox 3.0.6, latest stable Sun Java RE

Comment 1

[christiangoebel]

Here is an update for the bug:
I just tried the new version of Bespin 0.1.3 on my Linux box.

Here I can access most of the characters (e.g. {[]}\ ). Not sure if this is due to a fix or due to the fact that I use another system (Linux).

However I still can not type composed letters. Explanation: In many Languages you can compose letters e.b. â  by typing first ^ and than directly typing a. To type just the ^ sign on has to type a space after hitting the ^-button. 

On a German keyboard only the following signs are affected by this bug: ~ and ^ 

Again I can type these letters in the console of Bespin without a problem, but I cannot type them in the main text-field. 
Keep up the good work!

Comment 3

[christiangoebel]

I tested Bespin 0.1.3. again on WinXP SP3: 
The problem originally described in the bug still exists. 
This means that I am not able to type any characters that require the AltGr-Key on Windows.

Comment 4

[Julian Viereck]

Christian,

have you testet this with the up-to-date developer version of bespin or with the version on the web?
I tested the version 558:6969bcea4c23 on my fathers windows pc with an Suiss keyboard and it worked.

Julian

Comment 5

[christiangoebel]

I tested this on the version on the web. 
After the login it is indicated that this is version 0.1.3.

Comment 6

[Kevin Dangoor]

Yes, the fix appears in version 0.2 which is not yet on the web.

Comment 7

[christiangoebel]

o.k. 
I just tested again on the Web, with what is called version 0.1.5. and the problem seems to be fixed. 
Thanks a lot! Keep up the good work.

Comment 8

[Dion Almaer]

Christian, great!

Comment 9

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This is a mass migration from Mozilla Labs :: Bespin to Bespin :: General.

This bug likely still needs to be triaged and categorized.