499508 - swedish characters not produced from keyboard

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[seechop]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090616 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090616 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When typing swedish characters (åäö) shows up as [';
The whole keyboard becomes none/swedish in Firefox 3.5 RC2, but if I do the same typing in Notepad, the swedish characters comes up nicely.

This bug was _not_ present in Firefox 3.

I use english Windows XP with swedish keyboard.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click in the google search box
2. Type åäö
3. Watch as your typing comes out as [';
Actual Results:  
[';

Expected Results:  
åäö

I tried to change the locale settings to swedish only but that did not help. I did not restart FF 3.5 though.

Comment 1

[seechop]

FireFox 3.5 RC2

Comment 2

[seechop]

I restarted FF 3.5

Now it works and I get nice åäö

Maybe this is a low prio bug?

Comment 3

[Lennart Borgman]

I just saw this bug after upgrading today to current Firefox on a pc running swedish windows xp.

Comment 4

[lennart.borgman]

I should have reported from this mail address.

This is not a minor bug. There must be something that is very wrong when this happens - and it may makes Firefox rather useless for users not using a US keyboard.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode or a fresh profile? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 6

[Lennart Borgman]

No, I don't see this problem in FF 3.6.13. Thanks.

Comment 7

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug has had the CLOSEME tag for several weeks and the date in the tag is
far gone. If the reporter can still see this issue, Please retest with Firefox
3.6.x or later and a new profile
(http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). Then please remove the
closeme tag in the whiteboard, mark the bug against the proper version and
comment on the bug.