[Android] Styles do not work on KitKat word suggest

[Maciej]

When trying to write some text inside a word with added style (ie bold) the text doesn't have applied styles and new text can be placed on wrong place (like on the end of word).

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open demo and place cursor inside some word (ie: space|flight)
2. Toggle 'Bold' button to start writing bold text
3. Start writing some text

Expected result: spacesometextfligth (new text should be bold)

Actual result: spaceflightsometext

The result is the same on every tested browser.

The same result is when using voice input:

1. Open demo and place cursor inside some word (ie: space|flight)
2. Toggle 'Bold' button to start writing bold text
3. Start voice input some text

Actual result: text from voice input is not bold

From my observation it looks like Android or Cyanogenmod keyboard is replacing text from auto-suggest.

The only way to write bold text is to put:

1. cursor between two spaces
2. Toggle bold button
3. write new text

Tested on:

• Android 4.4.4 - Cyanogenmod 11-201410008-SNPAPSHOT-M11-i9300
• Browsers:
  • Firefox: 32.0.3
  • Chrome: 37.0.2062.117
  • Browser (preinstalled Chrome): 33.0.0.0 (from user agent string)

The issue was originally reported @ ​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26257663/ckeditor-android-formatters-work-incorrectly

[Piotrek Koszuliński]

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[Wiktor Walc]

It looks like a regression in an operating system / auto-suggest used in KitKat 4.4. The same TC works fine for me using exactly the same version of Google Chrome (37.0.2062.117) on Android 4.3.0 (stock version from Samsung).

We did not test it on a stock version of Android 4.4, so hard to say if it's Cyanogenmod-specific.

Note: we did test it in two ways:

• when the browser was working in mobile mode with the a ​recommended trick to enable CKEditor:
• "Request desktop site"

The results were similar. Confirmed on CKEditor 4.0, 4.3.1 and 4.4.5.