Bugzilla Bug 1925

I am trying AbiWord for the first time, it is the 0.9.2 BiDi version; the
system 
is NT4 SP5 Hebrew Enabled on a PC.

To start typing Hebrew, I used the common Windows key-combination, alt-shift.
This indeed switched to Hebrew, but introduced a strange "delay": The first 
letter key pressed produced the english capital letter; the next letter key 
produced the Hebrew character for the first key, and so forth, while space 
presses did not seem to take part in this party: The English equivalent would
be 
typing "She loves you" and seeing "$Sh elove syo" (where $ stands for a 
non-English character).

I closed and reopened, and the problem repeated. English typing is good, but 
once you try to get bidirectional, there are problems.

Hope you can solve this -- I've been boycotting MS Word for some time, and I 
really appreciate your effort to supply an alternative.

Thanks,
      Shai.

I just tried the non-Bidi version, and ran into a similar phenomenon: When
using 
the Alt-Shift combination to switch to Hebrew characters, the same thing
happens 
(first character shows up as Capped english, next characters enjoy a 1-letter 
delay). So I guess this is not related to the Bidi rendering, but to the 
handling of Alt-shift and the charset change.

HTH,
    Shai.

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1897 ***