Adobe Flash in Mozilla Firefox displays incorrect utf8 symbols when entering text

[Mārtiņš Eglītis]

Binary package hint: firefox

When I try to enter any text in Latvian or Lithuanian using specific symbols into any Adobe Flash based text input box, the input is wrong. Instead, for example, Ģļāžšķūņū ŗūķīšī entered text is Ä¢ļāžÅ¡Ä·Å«ņÅ« Å—Å«Ä·Ä«Å¡Ä«. When i try to copy text from somewhere else into textbox, everything is displayed correctly.

martins@martins-desktop:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

martins@martins-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://lv.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 5 14:22:08 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Draycen DeCator (ddecator)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Can you please clarify if this happens only in Flash-based text fields or in all text fields in Firefox?

[Mārtiņš Eglītis (martins-eglitis)]

Yes, this happens only in Flash-based text fields. In other text fields everything is correct.

[Draycen DeCator (ddecator)]

Thank you for the clarification. Since this only occurs in Flash-based text fields, this is likely a bug with Flash instead of Firefox. I'm switching this report to the flashplugin-nonfree package to reflect that.