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Bug 6180 - Impossible to enter ê (circumflex accent - e)
Summary: Impossible to enter ê (circumflex accent - e)
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Amaya
Classification: Unclassified
Component: (X)HTML (show other bugs)
Version: 10.1-pre5
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: lcarcone
QA Contact: lcarcone
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Reported: 2008-10-22 15:54 UTC by francois-paul.servant
Modified: 2015-06-20 16:34 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description francois-paul.servant 2008-10-22 15:54:28 UTC
Editing an (X)HTML doc, it seems impossible to enter an ê (circumflex accent - e). I tried with XHTML and HTML transitional docs, utf-8 and 8859-1 encoding. Mac OSX 10.5.5, French.
I just upgraded to 10.1-pre5 from 10.1 (I think), which had the same problem
Comment 1 Vatton 2008-11-03 12:57:27 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Editing an (X)HTML doc, it seems impossible to enter an ê (circumflex accent -
> e). I tried with XHTML and HTML transitional docs, utf-8 and 8859-1 encoding.
> Mac OSX 10.5.5, French.
> I just upgraded to 10.1-pre5 from 10.1 (I think), which had the same problem
> 

The utf-8 or 8859-1 encoding has no effect. That only concerns the input method.
I'm not able to reproduce that bug on a Mac OSX 10.4.11 and a Mac OSX 10.5.5 neither with a French keyboard nor with a US keyboard: "circumflex accent e" generates as expected a ê.

Do you have another keyboard?
Comment 2 francois-paul.servant 2008-11-03 14:41:40 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Do you have another keyboard?
No. I'm using a French MacBookPro (with French keyboard selected). When I click the ^ character, the insertion point goes to the next line. Here what it looks like in the input window (I typed azerty, and then ^ and then e) :
------
azerty
e
------
and the generated code:
------
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
      "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>Nouveau</title>
  <meta name="generator" content="Amaya, see http://www.w3.org/Amaya/">
</head>

<body>
<p>azerty</p>

<p>e</p>
</body>
</html>
-----

As an aside, if I try to copy "ê" (circumflex-e) from another program (textedit) and paste it into the editor window, I get "&#8730;" (square root - TM). (I get "&#8730;©"  square-root copyright for e acute)

Comment 3 Vatton 2008-11-03 16:11:13 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Editing an (X)HTML doc, it seems impossible to enter an ê (circumflex accent -
> e). I tried with XHTML and HTML transitional docs, utf-8 and 8859-1 encoding.
> Mac OSX 10.5.5, French.
> I just upgraded to 10.1-pre5 from 10.1 (I think), which had the same problem
> 

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Do you have another keyboard?
> No. I'm using a French MacBookPro (with French keyboard selected). When I click
> the ^ character, the insertion point goes to the next line. Here what it looks
> like in the input window (I typed azerty, and then ^ and then e) :
> ------
> azerty
> e
> ------
> and the generated code:
> ------
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
>       "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
>   <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>   <title>Nouveau</title>
>   <meta name="generator" content="Amaya, see http://www.w3.org/Amaya/">
> </head>
> 
> <body>
> <p>azerty</p>
> 
> <p>e</p>
> </body>
> </html>
> -----

It means the '^' key generates an "Enter" key.
Where is located the '^' key? At the right of 'p'?
Did you press the Alt key? the Shift key?
Could you give me information about your "Menu Saisie"
For the moment I don't know how to reproduce that bug :-(

> 
> As an aside, if I try to copy "ê" (circumflex-e) from another program
> (textedit) and paste it into the editor window, I get "&#8730;" (square root -
> TM). (I get "&#8730;©"  square-root copyright for e acute)
> 

Comment 4 francois-paul.servant 2008-11-03 17:55:16 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> It means the '^' key generates an "Enter" key.
> Where is located the '^' key? At the right of 'p'?
yes.
> Did you press the Alt key? the Shift key?
no
(with the shift key, you get an umlaut, that works correctly)
(with alt, you get circumflex-o, which seems consistent with other apps)

> Could you give me information about your "Menu Saisie"
what "Menu Saisie"? Do you mean "Insertion"?
> For the moment I don't know how to reproduce that bug :-(
are you using a French system? (I do)
Comment 5 lcarcone 2008-11-05 13:38:38 UTC
I have tested on my 10.3.9 Mac PowerPC and I'm not able to reproduce this problem. I'm using an azerty keyboard too.
Do you get the same problem when entering the '^' cheracter through the "Visualisateur clavier".
I have xev installed, when I click the ^ character, I get the following infos:
keycode 41, keysum 0xfe52, dead_circumflex
Do you have a way to verify the keycode/keysum associated to the '^' key ?
Comment 6 francois-paul.servant 2008-11-05 16:04:50 UTC
> Do you get the same problem when entering the '^' cheracter through the
> "Visualisateur clavier".

yes. It's probably worth noting that Amaya changes the behaviour of "Visualisateur clavier" wrt to the ^ key. Used from within an other application, "Visualisateur clavier"'s displayed keyboard changes when you click the ^ key (reflecting what you'll get now when using the keyboard: a, e , i... are transformed to â, ê, î...)
When Amaya is the front app, the keyboard remains unchanged.

> I have xev installed, when I click the ^ character, I get the following infos:
> keycode 41, keysum 0xfe52, dead_circumflex
> Do you have a way to verify the keycode/keysum associated to the '^' key ?

I've to look for something. Sorry, no time for that right now.

Comment 7 francois-paul.servant 2008-11-05 16:28:31 UTC
> I have xev installed, when I click the ^ character, I get the following infos:
> keycode 41, keysum 0xfe52, dead_circumflex
> Do you have a way to verify the keycode/keysum associated to the '^' key ?
> 

Here what gives xev:
KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x400001,
    root 0x44, subw 0x0, time 1836373221, (840,481), root:(840,525),
    state 0x0, keycode 41 (keysym 0xfe52, dead_circumflex), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5e) "^"
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: True

KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x400001,
    root 0x44, subw 0x0, time 1836373221, (840,481), root:(840,525),
    state 0x0, keycode 41 (keysym 0xfe52, dead_circumflex), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5e) "^"
Comment 8 Vatton 2008-11-06 08:43:13 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> > Do you get the same problem when entering the '^' cheracter through the
> > "Visualisateur clavier".
> 
> yes. It's probably worth noting that Amaya changes the behaviour of
> "Visualisateur clavier" wrt to the ^ key. Used from within an other
> application, "Visualisateur clavier"'s displayed keyboard changes when you
> click the ^ key (reflecting what you'll get now when using the keyboard: a, e ,
> i... are transformed to â, ê, î...)
> When Amaya is the front app, the keyboard remains unchanged.

Amaya doesn't change the "Visualisateur clavier" behavior on my Mac OS X.
When I click the ^ key (reflecting what you'll get now when using the keyboard: a, e , i... are transformed to â, ê, î...)

As I know the "Visualisateur clavier" behavior is managed by the system and not by the application.
Could you check the 'Menu Saisie" tab of the "International" section in "Préférences Système".
I have the option "Utiliser la même méthode de saisie pour tous les documents"
and "Français Clavier Roman" activated.


> > I have xev installed, when I click the ^ character, I get the following infos:
> > keycode 41, keysum 0xfe52, dead_circumflex
> > Do you have a way to verify the keycode/keysum associated to the '^' key ?
> 
> I've to look for something. Sorry, no time for that right now.
> 

Comment 9 francois-paul.servant 2008-11-06 09:29:36 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> > When Amaya is the front app, the keyboard remains unchanged.
> 
> Amaya doesn't change the "Visualisateur clavier" behavior on my Mac OS X.
> When I click the ^ key (reflecting what you'll get now when using the keyboard:
> a, e , i... are transformed to â, ê, î...)
> 
> As I know the "Visualisateur clavier" behavior is managed by the system and not
> by the application.
> Could you check the 'Menu Saisie" tab of the "International" section in
> "Préférences Système".
> I have the option "Utiliser la même méthode de saisie pour tous les documents"

I don't seem to have that option

> and "Français Clavier Roman" activated.

same for me

Something to note: I changed the selected keyboard to US. Then I can enter ^ in Amaya (alt-i combination). Works also with extended US ("Américain étendu") (you get ^ with alt-6) Here is what xev says in that later configuration:

KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x400001,
    root 0x44, subw 0x0, time 1897905450, (129,547), root:(129,591),
    state 0x0, keycode 66 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x400001,
    root 0x44, subw 0x0, time 1897914446, (129,547), root:(129,591),
    state 0x2000, keycode 30 (keysym 0xfe52, dead_circumflex), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5e) "^"
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: True

KeyRelease event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x400001,
    root 0x44, subw 0x0, time 1897914533, (129,547), root:(129,591),
    state 0x2000, keycode 30 (keysym 0xfe52, dead_circumflex), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5e) "^"


Comment 10 Jackie 2015-06-20 16:33:56 UTC
Please make my changes
Comment 11 Jackie 2015-06-20 16:34:46 UTC
Please make my changes