Re: small problem with netscape and japanese input

[David Eduardo Gomez Noguera <davidgn@example.com>]

On Fri, 09 Feb 2001 04:04:04 +0900
Jerome Limozin <jlz@example.com> was chatting the other day about l and said:

> I have a small but frustrating problem with netscape...
> I'm using a mandrake 7.2 distro, with netscape 7.6 from kondara. I'm
> using canna+kinput2 for japanese input, and it works pretty well.
thats strange, isnt it? last version of netscape was 4.xx (dont remember well)
and then,6.

> The problem is when I enter japanese characters in 1-line fields in web
> forms, or in an email title. when I make a typo (I do often!) and delete
> a character, next characters I type are all mojibake after kanji
> conversion. If I delete twice for each character, fine, no problem. In
> other words, backspace key only delete half of the double-byte
> character....
> strange thing is that when I type in body of the mail, no problem,
> backspace deletes the full character.
> Any clue?

well, just that netscape 4.xx is pretty old, and it might not manage wide characters well. That happens on some terminals too (i.e. kterm).
I have but a small clue. on jis and euc (not sure, fix me if im wrong) normal ascii characters are one byte only (0-127). If there is a byte bigger than that, then its a wide character. when deleting, i think its hard for the program to see whether its a wide character or no what its deleting.

baybe its a netscae issue on the form fields and a non netscape issue on text...
but i have little or no idea...

If you try mozilla or netscape 6, i think that doesnt happen. but you need a lot of ram to run either.

i would also like to hear the true reasons for this to happen...
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