VisualEditor: Recursive word addition with Google Input Tools in reference tool on Firefox
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	Siddhartha-Ghai
	Jul 23 2013, 3:16 AM

Description

Steps to reproduce:

Download and install Google input tools for windows www.google.co.in/inputtools
Open any page in firefox
Open VE
Edit a reference
Type anything in the reference. The word is input by the tools when the word is complete and one presses space/enter

Expected Behaviour:
The word is input and if the spacebar has been pressed, a space is input too.

What happens instead:
The word is entered recursively over and over. The space isn't input at all.

System environment:
Win 7 X64 SP1
Firefox 15.0.1
Google input tools for languages hindi and punjabi(gurmukhi script)

The problem didn't seem to arise when using input tools for urdu, though its possible that's just coz the wiki is ltr and urdu is rtl.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Invalid		Jdforrester-WMF	T35077 VisualEditor multilingual input / i18n issues (tracking)
		Resolved		dchan	T53847 VisualEditor: Recursive word addition with Google Input Tools in reference tool on Firefox

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:01 AM

• bzimport set Reference to bz51847.

There's code to address this bug in the following patch, which is due to go live by mediawiki.org on 13 September 2013:

Please let us know whether it fixes the bug!

Marking this as "FIXED" on the expectation that it's fixed - please re-open if you find that it is still occurring.

Confirming that this is fixed in Firefox 23.0.1 on Win7 X64 SP1 for both punjabi (gurmukhi script) and hindi.