978289 - [B2G][Keyboard] The R$ special character is missing from the keyboard

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Keyboard, defect)

Description

[Harvey]

Description:
When the user holds the "R" key on the keyboard the special character "R$" does not appear. This is inconsistent with previous builds and some language's keyboards where this character is available.

Repro Steps:
1) Updated Buri to BuildID: 20140227040202
2) Select Messages app.
3) Select the new message icon.
4) Open the keyboard and hold the R button.

Actual:
No special characters appear.

Expected:
The special character "R$" is available.

Environmental Variables:
Device: Buri v1.4 Mozilla 
BuildID: 20140227040202
Gaia: 22d48b62df7901ad45044f66e15e7d8943884a06
Gecko: a98a1d78817f
Version: 30.0a1
Firmware Version: v1.2-device.cfg

Notes:

Repro frequency: 100% 
Link to failed test case: https://moztrap.mozilla.org/manage/case/6450/

Comment 1

[Harvey]

This issue does not reproduce on Buri 1.3

1.3 Environmental Variables:
Device: Buri 1.3 
BuildID: 20140228004002
Gaia: 9e439c98a05bde90b571701ef0b2dbb4249ef196
Gecko: 7fb42ba60248
Version: 28.0
Firmware Version: v1.2-device.cfg

Comment 2

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

This was changed by the following 2 bugs, which I add dependency for.

Hi jharvey,

Could you please clarify if this is for English or for any specific languages?
What is the main concern of removing "R$" from non-pt-BR language?  If there is any, I guess we could ask for UX/l10n team input here.

Thanks.

Comment 3

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

(In reply to Rudy Lu [:rudyl] from comment #2)
> 
> Could you please clarify if this is for English or for any specific
> languages?

This is an English only test run, so this is likely English specifically.

> What is the main concern of removing "R$" from non-pt-BR language?  If there
> is any, I guess we could ask for UX/l10n team input here.

I think the reverse of that question needs to be analyzed here - why is this no longer needed? Is UX in agreement with the change? Can't exactly tell by the bug discussion on the rationale.

Leaving needinfo on UX to see what they think as well.

Going to clear the nom for now until we get a better understanding of what the right direction is.

Comment 4

[Stephany Wilkes]

Flagging Carrie on keyboard UX.

Comment 5

[Carrie Wang [New account: [e-mail]]]

I don't think we've decided to remove R$ from the R key. Is there any reason that we shall remove it? Thank.

Comment 6

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Rudy - Can you sync up with Carrie and come to a conclusion of whether we should keep or remove the R$ from the R key?

Comment 7

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

I don't have a strong opinion on this and I don't see any clear rationale behind this change either, from bug 943812.

My understanding for this change is, since we have pt-BR (Portuguese) layout, and it can serve to input "R$", then there is no need to put "R$" in all other language. If you need that, you could just enable pt-BR keyboard and get that.

If we reference Android phone, you could see that, "R$" is not an alternative character for "R" in English layout.

Carrie,

If you agree on the above, then I guess we could close this bug?
Thanks.

Comment 8

[Carrie Wang [New account: [e-mail]]]

OK then, I'm fine with removing the "R$" key.
Thanks for the clarification. :)

Comment 9

[Rudy Lu [:rudyl] (inactive after 2015/7/3)]

Carrie,

Thanks, then I'll just dupe this one to the bug that made this change.

Comment 10

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

Should be invalid instead of a dup.