setting Italic fails for Japanese character, in Japanese locale

[Tim Liu]

Steps to reproduce

1. change all locale to Japanese
2. open the demo site (​http://ckeditor.com/demo) and type some Japanese character
3. select those Japanese character and set Italic

Expected result

the selected text will set to Italic

Actual result

the selected text will still keep non-Italic

Other details (browser, OS, CKEditor version, installed plugins)

Win10+IE11/Edge

OS locale set to Japanese Browser locale set to Japanese (try to make sure it's 100% Japanese... it's the key to reproduce. i have a Win10 VM that cannot reproduce this and i suspect it's because it's not set Japanese completely)

[Jakub Ś]

I will need some details before confirming this ticket.

1. I have set JP Hiragana for my Keyboard and I have set JP language as a main one in IE.
2. I have typed saigen, pressed space, text got transformed (was auto selected) and I have pressed italic right away.
3. Result was that text wasn't changed to italic. The em was inserted after the text. If I have selected the text manually and then pressed italic, it worked.

@timliu is this what you do to get this bug or your steps are different? If they are, please describe them in detail. Please note that it may be important how you select the text or even what you type so the more details you provide the better.

How are you setting locale in IE? Is it through Tools-Internet Options-Languages?

[Tim Liu]

you may check the above attached WebM video for detail (you can play it with any browser that supports HTML5 video. FYI: ​http://www.webmfiles.org/how-to-play-webm-files/)

as you can see:

• this can be reproduced in both Edge and IE11
• it shows the OS locale settings
• this time i try nippon (日本) for the Japanese word. you can see i set italic after the word is typed.
• clicking CKEditor "Source" button and it shows that the word 日本 is enclosed in <em>

hope this helps for your investigation.

[kkrzton]

Hello @timliu,

thanks for reporting this issue, however, I am unable to reproduce it following the steps that are shown in the video you uploaded. I suspect we may be using a different version of Edge/IE11. I am using virtual machine with Win10, Edge 25.10586.0.0 (EdgeHTML 13.10586) and IE11 11.162.10586.0. On what version did you test it?

I can only confirm the result by @j.swiderski:

1. I have set JP Hiragana for my Keyboard and I have set JP language as a main one in IE.
2. I have typed saigen, pressed space, text got transformed (was auto selected) and I have pressed italic right away.
3. Result was that text wasn't changed to italic. The em was inserted after the text. If I have selected the text manually and then pressed italic, it worked.

This scenario is still valid.

I also attached some screenshots.

[Tim Liu]

IE11 version: 11.420.10586.0

Edge version: 25.10586.0.0 (EdgeHTML 13.10586)

[kkrzton]

Thanks for the answer @timliu, I will have to recheck what you described earlier:

OS locale set to Japanese Browser locale set to Japanese (try to make sure it's 100% Japanese... it's the key to reproduce. i have a Win10 VM that cannot reproduce this and i suspect it's because it's not set Japanese completely)

Maybe here is the issue.

[Tim Liu]

thanks for your effort and i totally understand your pain. i dont have a key factor to make it reproduce, but i do know it's possible it can only be reproduced on some machines, and i think the Japanese locale for the browser and OS do matter.

let me know if you want more information from me.