564728 - Accents not available in compose window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 541042

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Boudry Vincent]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; fr; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100503 Firefox/3.6.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; fr-FR; rv:1.9.2.5pre) Gecko/20100430 Thunderbird/3.1b2

Opening a new compose window, I cannot insert accentuated or special characters while until the format is changed, IF I type some text in the subject field.
Everything is OK once options→Format→"anything but text only" is selected.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a new compose window
2.Type in a subject
3.Try to type a text with é ç using the keyboard (paste seems to work)
  Those character just don't appear.
4.Selection the menu "options→format→(anything by text only)"
5.Accents now work in text.

Comment 1

[Oscar]

Seems to be a duplicate of bug 512680

Comment 2

[Oscar]

Sorry,
Seems to be a duplicate of bug 541042
(not 512680)
Could you confirm it?

Comment 3

[Boudry Vincent]

yes indeed.

Meanwhile I also discovered actually that this behaviour only happens using reply to a message, i.e. when one doesn't pass by the "subject" or address fields.
Clicking in one of those (even without typing) revert back to normal...