492543 - Special characters not allowed in input fields of new windows

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Labs :: Prism, defect)

Description

[Alexander Klar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; de-de) AppleWebKit/528.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/528.16
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11pre) Gecko/2009042918 Prism/1.0b1

When opening a new mail window in GMail I cannot type special characters like German umlauts. This behaviour is resolved when I switch to another application and then back.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new mail window by shift-clicking on "Compose E-Mail".
2. Type a special character (it is ignored).
3. Switch to another application.
4. Switch back to the Prism app.
5. Type a special character (it works now).
Actual Results:  
The special characters typed are not accepted in step 2, but they are in step 5.

Expected Results:  
They should always be accepted.

Regular characters like a-z do always work as expected.

Comment 1

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Prism isn't maintained anymore. Mass closing of the bugs.