Bug 98631

Summary: Cannot insert characters from character map in webpage forms
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: William M. Quarles <walrus>
Component: mozillaAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description William M. Quarles 2003-07-06 02:15:46 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225

Description of problem:
I cannot copy and paste or middle-click to insert characters from the character
map in forms on webpages.  Occassionally it does work, but the characters are
incorrect and sometimes affect the other charaters already in the form (and
honestly they don't look like they are from a human language that I am familiar
with).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mozilla-1.2.1-26

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy a character not found on the keyboard from the character map or the
character map applet
2. Try to paste in a form in Mozilla
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 William M. Quarles 2003-07-06 02:27:39 UTC
Sorry, slight correction.  It does work from the Character Map program in Gnome,
but not from the Character Map Panel Applet.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2006-08-05 03:59:11 UTC
Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to
make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks.

Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc.
They are maintained by the Fedora Legacy project (http://www.fedoralegacy.org/)
for security updates only. If this is a security issue, please reassign to the
'Fedora Legacy' product in bugzilla. Please note that Legacy security update
support for these products will stop on December 31st, 2006.

If this is not a security issue, please check if this issue is still present
in a current Fedora Core release. If so, please change the product and version
to match, and check the box indicating that the requested information has been
provided.

If you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, please note that
Fedora Legacy security update support for these products will stop on December
31st, 2006. You are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release
or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may
be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/.

Any bug still open against Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9 at the end of 2006 will be
closed 'CANTFIX'. Again, if this bug still exists in a current release, or is a
security issue, please change the product as necessary. We thank you for your
help, and apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point.


Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2007-01-02 18:45:36 UTC
Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc.
f you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, you are strongly
advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux
or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is
available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/.

Closing as CANTFIX.