When you edit captions and input Japanese text with Japanese input method (of ことえり, the default Japanese method of Mac OS X), for example 生醤油 (kijouyu), the cursor will place itself after the first character, but it should place itself after the last (3rd) character. Tested on Firefox and OSX, but may happen in other browsers and operating systems. Thanks to Takashi Ota and Josh Lim for testing and reporting.
Version: unspecified
Severity: major
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invalid | Jdforrester-WMF | T35077 VisualEditor multilingual input / i18n issues (tracking) | |||
| Resolved | dchan | T54716 VisualEditor: cursor places itself after the first character when inserting a group of Japanese characters |
Now I tested it myself on Fedora 18 with Firefox. It happens there too. To reproduce:
Observed: The cursor is placed between 三 and 菱.
Expected: The cursor should be placed after 三菱. That is what happens in other text editors on my system.
This seems to be caused by a call to surfaceObserver.stop() in Surface's onDocumentKeyDown method, which is wrongly asynchronous. The same problem was affecting Malayalam and probably other scripts/IMEs too.
I *think* it should be fixed by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79451 (just merged).
Change 80080 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester:
WIP:Don't emit Surface changes back to the Surface
Given that this is now merged, I'm going to mark this as fixed. However, this is provisional - please re-open if you think that this has not worked!