Bug 126269
Summary: | When default language is British English, Slashdot login form broken in all browsers | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Adrianna Pinska <adrianna> |
Component: | system-config-language | Assignee: | Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat> |
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 1 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://slashdot.org/login.pl | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-11-23 15:55:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Adrianna Pinska
2004-06-18 09:16:49 UTC
(I'm not sure whether this is Slashdot's fault or Fedora's fault - I am also filing this at the Slash bug tracker.) Are you also using the UK keymap or are you using a US keymap? I can't imagine that just the language setting alone would cause this problem. I think it was the default US keymap, unless this is overridden by the language setting. My password doesn't contain any weird characters - it's all letters and numbers. I've realised that something else on Slashdot which has fixed itself now that I have changed the language setting is the posting form - before, I couldn't preview (the POST arguments would get lost) and my line breaks wouldn't register as line breaks in plain text mode. I never noticed any other strange issues related to typing characters. I had no problems logging in on any other site (not even Kuro5hin, which also uses Slash - although I think they use a different flavour). But I don't have accounts on many sites - perhaps five in total - and don't fill in forms very often, so this isn't really conclusive. Now that I think of it, the newlines were probably being ignored as a result of the form not registering that I had selected plain text format - the default is HTML - and not because there was something weird about my line breaks. I could actually *post* the post, though. OK, I have done some experimentation. It is not the language itself (when I change the LANG variable from en_US.UTF-8 to en_GB.UTF-8 and try a console browser, it's fine). But I don't think it's the keyboard either - when I change the language through the gui and go to the keyboard settings dialog, the keymap seems still to be set to US English. So what else does redhat-config-language change? (By the way, I have confirmed that the same things happen whether I change the default system language under system settings or change the language for the session before logging in.) All redhat-config-language changes is the fields in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. The keymap is not changed by this. redhat-config-keyboard changes the keymap in both X and the console. I can't replicate this in the slightest, I have a British Keyboard setup and am usinng en_US.UTF-8 on Fedora Core 2. Mozilla happily logs in for me. Can you confirm if this issue persisits for you in Fedora Core 2 or Fedora Core 3 test 1? I am currently still using Fedora Core 1, but I am planning to switch to Core 2 soon. If I experience the same problem, I will report it. Closing as worked for me |