21830 2013-04-25 19:28:30 +0000 KeyboardEvent.locale is too general. 2015-10-06 22:44:22 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG HISTORICAL - UI Events unspecified PC Windows NT RESOLVED MOVED P2 normal --- 1 travil garykac garykac masayuki mike mounir public-webapps www-dom public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 86809 0 travil 2013-04-25 19:28:30 +0000 The KeyboardEvent.locale property is underspecified. BCP-47 is too general, we need to get much more crip on what sub-set of these strings are reasonable and which are not. Eg., there is a dvorak BCP-47 string. Should this be reported? Goal should be to simplify the set. 86976 1 masayuki 2013-04-30 00:00:04 +0000 It's good timing. I tried implementing KeyboardEvent.locale and CompositionEvent.locale on Gecko. Then, I worked on Windows and Mac. I think there is no API on Linux (except directly accessing IM framework such as iBus, SCIM). I'm still investigating about Android, though. On Windows, we can make conversion table with: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb896001.aspx # I guess that IE 9 also used this table. On Mac, we can get the language property of current TIS with kTISPropertyInputSourceLanguages. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/TextFonts/Reference/TextInputSourcesReference/Reference/reference.html Then, on Mac, we cannot return locale. E.g., cannot return en-US, can just return en. And IE 10 returns "zh-CN" for simplified Chinese. However, on Mac, we can returns "zh-Hans". So, I have no idea to implement with good compatibility between platforms. So, I'm now thinking that .locale is not useful for web developers under current spec. 86987 2 masayuki 2013-04-30 05:07:54 +0000 The draft patches for Gecko are here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680832 87824 3 garykac 2013-05-17 18:09:00 +0000 We may want to move KeyboardEvent.locale into UI Events so that we can take the time to define it properly. Nothing in D3E relies on KeyboardEvent.locale, but UI Events has a few methods that want to make use of it. 96321 4 garykac 2013-11-14 09:00:41 +0000 The locale attribute has been moved into UI Events. 123549 5 garykac 2015-10-06 22:44:22 +0000 Now tracking as: https://github.com/w3c/uievents/issues/14