Since successfully Japanesizing my SuSE 8.2 personal system (thank you,
all!), I've noticed a new problem.
Suppose I go to the box in which I've typed "phantom characters" (the
title of this message), move the cursor to the front, and delete the
initial "p" (perhaps because I want to change it to "P"). The other 18
characters -- including the space, and sorry if I've miscounted -- would
be expected to move slightly to the left:
hantom characters
That's what would have happened last week. But now, it wouldn't happen;
instead I'd see:
hantom characterss
Indeed, if I left my finger on the Del key, I'd read
racterssssssssssss
etc.
Now, my growing-fast-but-still-minuscule knowledge of Linux tells me
that Del and Backspace don't work in (say) bash as they might on the
MS-DOS command line to which I'm accustomed. Fair enough. But why should
the addition of Japanese make this change to Mozilla?
More widely, text input works fine in some places -- e.g. the message
box of Mozilla; I have no trouble revising what I am writing *here* --
and not others, where the text-input vertical-line cursor seems not to
be placed quite correctly.
If this is a known bug somewhere, tell me and I'll learn to live with
it. I'm asking because I suspect that it's a well known fact that XXX
should be set to YYY whereas my XXX is probably set to ZZZ; and I'm
asking here because (a) the change does seem to be
Japanesification-related, and (b) you're such nice people :-)