94879 - Unable to edit Chinese text in the composer

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Feng Zhou]

On Simplified Chinese Windows editions(I've tried me & 2000), after entering 
some Chinese characters, the mail content textbox stops responding to cursor 
keys and accept letters in reverse order(i.e. I type ABC and get CBA!).

I think this affects all Simplified Chinese Windows versions.

This seems also apply to textareas in the browser so maybe it is a widget 
problem.

This problem have been there ever since I first tried Mozilla.  It makes 
Mail/News totally unusable on Simplified Chinese Windows.

Comment 1

[ji]

Did you mean you had the same problem in HTML composer?
Does it always happen or only happen after you enter some special Chinese 
characters? Thanks.

Comment 2

[ji]

Confirmed the bug. I saw this when using Intelligent ABC Input Method on
Simplified Chinese W2K. It happens on HTML composer as well. Changed the product
to browser and QA contact to Yuying.

Comment 3

[Roy Yokoyama]

accepting

Comment 4

[Yuying Long]

Please see bug 88245 for a similar case - the reporter original case was on
Traditional chinese, but my comment on 2001-07-09 15:43 was on Simplified
chinese as well.

cc Frank

Comment 5

[ji]

Yuying, the bug number you mentioned seems wrong.

Comment 6

[Yuying Long]

Sorry, I meant 88425.

Comment 7

[Yuying Long]

I talked with Xinaglan, seems when she switch to "Intelligent ABC Input Method" 
(zhi neng ABC) from some other IME, then will see the problem.

I checked this IME on my Win2k - I can input chinese or english characters if I 
start from it.  But if I switch to it from some other IME, I'll get crash some 
times - I have a bug 90595 about the switch issue.

Reporter: which Chinese IME did you use when you saw the problem?  are you 
talking about you can not edit Chinese text at all or under some condition? 
Thanks!

Comment 8

[Frank Tang]

mark m0.9.4

Comment 9

[Feng Zhou]

I checked the latest build #2001082109.  It turns out that with the IMEs coming 
with W2k Prof. Simplified Chinese,  Microsoft Pinyin and Intelligent ABC is 
alright.  But Complete Pinyin(Quan Pin) has the problem.  The Wubi 86 IME 
coming with Office 2k also has the problem.

Yes, this problem occurs in Mail/News composer, HTML composer and even in text 
areas in HTML forms.

Comment 10

[Feng Zhou]

I think this is a duplicate of #88425.  Notice that the reporter of #88425 is 
using Traditional Chinese.

Comment 11

[Yuying Long]

Yes, the reporter of bug 88425 was using traditional chinese, but we have
comments about same problem on simplified chinese there as well.
I think we should make it as dup of bug 88425.

Comment 12

[Frank Tang]

move to moz0.9.5. Not problem for Japanese IME. 

Comment 13

[msanz]

nsbranch- since Frank moved it to 0.9.5

Comment 14

[Roy Yokoyama]

This is definitely a duplicate of 88425.
Marking as such.  Please reopen if someone thinks otherwise.

Comment 15

[Yuying Long]

Marking as verified.  Please re-open if still see the problem after bug 88425
checked in.