[QA] VisualEditor language support tests

[Amir E. Aharoni]

So here's a little something that I tried to do with Zeljko in this
direction:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/83966/



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2013/8/27 Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>

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> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <
> amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
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>> I'm talking about the browser level here. A lot of basic typing
>> functionality is re-implemented in VE instead of using the browser and
>> OS features - cursor movement, shortcuts for selection and deletion,
>> input methods, etc.
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> Yes, this is the sort of test that I think makes sense, a test for cursor
> movements for example I think would be appropriate for a VE browser test.
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>  Would you like to write a Cucumber scenario for such a test?
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> Also note though, that as of the latest VE deployment to test2wiki, we
> have a regression bug such that we no longer enter text reliably in VE at
> all, even in English: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53360
>
> -Chris
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> (By "input methods" I refer not so much to the
>> input methods in the ULS extension, but mostly to native keyboards for
>> Chinese and Japanese, which are so complicated that they called "input
>> methods" rather than just "keyboard layouts".)
>>
>> Risks to mitigate? - of course there are. Support for languages of
>> India, as well as Chinese and Japanese is only now being fleshed out.
>> Not supporting this functionality or introducing regressions will make
>> VE unusable for thousands of editors in these languages. In addition
>> to bugs already mentioned, there is also
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51477
>> - It's marked as resolved, but it needs regression testing, and there
>> are more like him.
>>
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>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
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