Alex, What keyboard event are you logging? Some events are only captured by a keypress event and will be ignored by the keydown event.
-Dan On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 5:12 AM, alex bodnaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > hello friends, > > i ran into a corner case with jquery autocomplete which i'd like to > seek a solution for: > > my system is bilingual (en-he) gnome debian linux, with firefox 3.0.3. > > with focus on an autocomplete field, i'm switching the keymap to > hebrew, using alt-shift. logging the event keyCode to the firebug > console, i get one 18 value, followed sometimes by a 0 additional > event. > > the next character i'm typing into the field is being shown, but does > not trigger a keycode event, hence the autocompletion doesn't react. > this doesn't happen when i switch the language to english, probably > because ascii characters have non-zero keyCodes. > > but the following character i'm typing acts ok. no, this is not > because minChars. > > i assume that the alt-shift is leaving the event manager in an > ambiguous state, which invalidates an unicode char, but is being later > cleaned by typing another char, or bksp/del. > > could you help? > > best regards, > alex >
