> On Jan 9, 2016, at 6:33 PM, Olli Pettay <o...@pettay.fi> wrote: > > On 01/10/2016 01:14 AM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> This is another feedback from multiple browser vendors (Apple, Google, >> Microsoft) that got together in Redmond last Thursday to discuss editing API >> and related events. >> >> >> We found out that all major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, and Safari) fire >> composition events for dead keys on Mac but they don't on Windows. I think >> this difference comes from the underlying platform's difference but we think >> we should standardize it to always fire composition events for consistent >> behavior across platforms. >> >> Does anyone know of any implementation limitation to do this? Or are there >> any reason we should not fire composition events for dead keys on Windows? >> > > Does anyone know the behavior on Linux. > > What is the exact case you're talking about here? do you have a test case?
Sure. On Mac, you can enable International English keyboard and type ' key and then u. On Mac: 1. Pressing ' key inserts ' (character) and fires `compositionstart` event. 2. Pressing u key replaces ' with รบ and fires `compositionend`. On Windows, dead key doesn't insert any character at all, and pressing the second key insert the composed character. Looking at MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646267(v=vs.85).aspx#_win32_Dead_Character_Messages dead key should issue WM_KEYDOWN as well as WM_DEADCHAR in TranslateMessage so I don't think there is an inherent platform limitation to fire composition events. - R. Niwa
