In case of using a keyboard layout with dead keys, e.g. the russian mnemonic keyboard, input in normal mode might be treated like input in insert mode.
On the mnemonic Russian keyboard, pressing the dead key j twice (which corresponds to "йй") results in "йй" being inserted. It would be expected for the cursor to move down twice instead.
One of the two things could be done:
- Research if it's possible to handle dead keys as normal keypresses (dubitable)
- Remove the limitation of input length for normal mode as described here (Supposedly that can interfere with Japanese IME and spellcheck, I'm not yet sure how to reproduce a possible bug.)