Hi,
System is Fedora 27 x86_64 (rawhide), fully up to date with the rawhide repo.
Firefox and Opera are producing diacritics (acute accent, dot-above, cedilla-below) when I type in text windows. Other apps such as konsole seem to work just fine and I have not seen this problem elsewhere.
locale says:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
Any/all hints/tips/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
George...
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On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:21:58 +0000 (UTC) George R Goffe grgoffe@yahoo.com wrote:
System is Fedora 27 x86_64 (rawhide), fully up to date with the rawhide repo.
[snip]
Firefox and Opera are producing diacritics (acute accent, dot-above, cedilla-below) when I type in text windows. Other apps such as konsole seem to work just fine and I have not seen this problem elsewhere. Any/all hints/tips/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I was just using firefox in a fully updated rawhide, and I didn't see this at all. What specifically do you mean by 'text windows'? I assume you mean input dialogs, like the url line, etc. . It is probably a setting you have somewhere, but I don't know where that would be. Have you looked in the configuration for firefox or opera to see if somehow something changed the defaults?
Stan,
Thanks for your response.
Text widgets like email in Firefox and various sites, including bugzilla.redhat.com. Sigh.
Except for the fact that this is a rawhide system, it's been quite stable. This system has a lot of the package groups installed. I did this to look for package and packagemanagement bugs. I did the group installs "with optional" right after I did the install. The problem didn't appear until later, a couple of weeks ago.
I am sure it's something in the system because I rarely use Opera. I am a fairly heavy user of Firefox. They used to have an option for "Western" encoding but that has gone away and the view->text encoding seems adamant on "unicode", autodetect is off. Also, I removed as much of KDE related files (.kde* .config* .gtk* .cache* .gnome*) from my userid and then started kde freshly. Either I missed a file or it's not KDE. I'm going to try both with WindowMaker.
The keyboard is a USB HP version and has "US" on the back... I haven't swapped out the keyboard yet though. I'm grasping at straws.
Thanks again for your response.
George...
________________________________ From: stan stanl-fedorauser@vfemail.net To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: George R Goffe grgoffe@yahoo.com Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 2:15 PM Subject: Re: keyboard producing diacritics (acute accent, dot-above, cedilla-below)
On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:21:58 +0000 (UTC) George R Goffe grgoffe@yahoo.com wrote:
System is Fedora 27 x86_64 (rawhide), fully up to date with the rawhide repo.
[snip]
Firefox and Opera are producing diacritics (acute accent, dot-above, cedilla-below) when I type in text windows. Other apps such as konsole seem to work just fine and I have not seen this problem elsewhere. Any/all hints/tips/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I was just using firefox in a fully updated rawhide, and I didn't see this at all. What specifically do you mean by 'text windows'? I assume you mean input dialogs, like the url line, etc. . It is probably a setting you have somewhere, but I don't know where that would be. Have you looked in the configuration for firefox or opera to see if somehow something changed the defaults?
On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 02:06:26 +0000 (UTC) George R Goffe grgoffe@yahoo.com wrote:
Text widgets like email in Firefox and various sites, including bugzilla.redhat.com. Sigh.
Then I can confirm. I just finished updating a bugzilla ticket in rawhide, and there were no issues.
Except for the fact that this is a rawhide system, it's been quite stable. This system has a lot of the package groups installed. I did this to look for package and packagemanagement bugs. I did the group installs "with optional" right after I did the install. The problem didn't appear until later, a couple of weeks ago.
Yeah, I've found rawhide has been very stable recently, as well.
I am sure it's something in the system because I rarely use Opera. I am a fairly heavy user of Firefox. They used to have an option for "Western" encoding but that has gone away and the view->text encoding seems adamant on "unicode", autodetect is off. Also, I removed as much of KDE related files (.kde* .config* .gtk* .cache* .gnome*) from my userid and then started kde freshly. Either I missed a file or it's not KDE. I'm going to try both with WindowMaker.
You could try starting firefox from a terminal in -safe-mode to see if it is something in your add-ons. /usr/bin/firefox -safe-mode And that also gives you an option to reset the browser, though you lose all history and cache. Also, try starting with a different user, one you just created.
The keyboard is a USB HP version and has "US" on the back... I haven't swapped out the keyboard yet though. I'm grasping at straws.
I doubt it is the keyboard.
Stan,
Apparently the crash in Gnome that was preventing it's startup has been fixed.
I have tested for this "bug" under Gnome and find that it (the "bug") has gone away. KDE apparently has some bugs outstanding along with one whose component that handles menuing in the desktop and the one (same one?) that handles/registers apps that start up, contains other apps, displays virtual desktops, presents various KDE menus, displays the time of day and some other things.
Again, THANKS to everyone who help with this problem,
George...
________________________________ From: stan stanl-fedorauser@vfemail.net To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: George R Goffe grgoffe@yahoo.com Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 2:15 PM Subject: Re: keyboard producing diacritics (acute accent, dot-above, cedilla-below)
On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:21:58 +0000 (UTC) George R Goffe grgoffe@yahoo.com wrote:
System is Fedora 27 x86_64 (rawhide), fully up to date with the rawhide repo.
[snip]
Firefox and Opera are producing diacritics (acute accent, dot-above, cedilla-below) when I type in text windows. Other apps such as konsole seem to work just fine and I have not seen this problem elsewhere. Any/all hints/tips/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I was just using firefox in a fully updated rawhide, and I didn't see this at all. What specifically do you mean by 'text windows'? I assume you mean input dialogs, like the url line, etc. . It is probably a setting you have somewhere, but I don't know where that would be. Have you looked in the configuration for firefox or opera to see if somehow something changed the defaults?
On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 22:45:51 +0000 (UTC) George R Goffe grgoffe@yahoo.com wrote:
I have tested for this "bug" under Gnome and find that it (the "bug") has gone away.
Great!