Caps Lock turning off on android with predictive text enabled

[Neicul123]

Issue Type

• Bug
• Feature

Description

The following bug occurs on android with both GBoard and Samsung Keyboard.

When predictive text/suggestion strip is toggled on in the keyboard settings, it will disable caps after a character conversion while entering katakana (with caps on).

So entering AMERIKA will result in アめりか as caps turns off after converting the first character. It does not do this for regular input fields, where typing AMERIKA will still result in AMERIKA rather than Amerika. Note that it does not matter if it's the very first character of the word or not, it does the same thing regardless of position inside the word.

I've also fiddled around with changing the autocomplete/spellcheck/autocorrect/autocapitalize attributes, but that didn't seem to change the behavior either.

Steps to reproduce

Go to wanakana.com and try the above on an android device with predictive text (samsung) or suggestion strip (gboard) setting toggled on in the keyboard settings. Somehow it keeps resetting the caps lock after a character conversion.

Versions

I'm using version 4.0.1.

• Browser:

Tested with Chrome on Android, but I assume it happens in any browser.

• OS/Device:

Android

• Keyboard/Input Method:

• Samsung Keyboard
• GBoard
• Possibly others?