119877 - Hebrew text pasted from Mozilla appears as question marks

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Shoshannah Forbes]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020111
BuildID:    2002011108

When I copy and paste text from Mozilla into nisus, the Hebrew text appears as
question marks, althugh both application sopposedly support Hebrew

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.isoc.org.il/netscape/
2. Select and copy the text
3. Paste into a Hebrew document in Nisus

Actual Results:  the Hebrew appears as question marks

Expected Results:  the Hebrew should display as Hebrew

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Mac-specific Bidi bug -> ftang.

Does nisus use standard encoding for Hebrew?
http://www.nisus.com/Products/NisusWriter/Features/Hebrew.asp doesn't say.

Comment 2

[Frank Tang]

does nisus support 'utxt' clipboard format?
change the region code of 'vers' resource to Israel may fix that. (or registered
with hebrew language kit)
cc nhotta and pinkerton
This is not a bidi issue but a general intl c&p issue on Mac.  

Comment 3

[Shoshannah Forbes]

I am getting the same behavier with simple text Hebrew- pasted text from mozilla
appears as question marks. Changing the font does not have any effect

Comment 4

[Frank Tang]

give this to nhotta,
nhotta, maybe we should take a look at 'STYL' in clipboard before return the
clipboard charset. 
nsbeta1 because it also impact Japanese, Korean, Chinese, all other charset

Comment 5

[Frank Tang]

forget about this comment, it could only be used for paste, but not copy.
>nhotta, maybe we should take a look at 'STYL' in clipboard before return the
>clipboard charset. 

Comment 6

[Frank Tang]

change component to internationalization
nsbeta1- per triage meeting. 

Comment 7

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Is there anything we can do to help this bug get fixed soner. IMO, these
problems   (together with big 19899 ) are too major to wait for some future
version of
Mozilla- with them in place, copy/paste of Hebrew text on MacOS is
effectively not there at al

Comment 8

[Shoshannah Forbes]

correction: my comment above should have said: "together with bug 119899"

Comment 9

[nhottanscp]

I do not plan to work on this soon. It would be great if anyone can help.

There is another clipboard bug 108029. Can this bug be dup of bug 119899?
The comment #9 of bug 108029 proposes some fallback mechanism in case the
charset conversion fails. I think the second option (use the keyscript) is possible.

Comment 10

[Shoshannah Forbes]

tested with mozilla 1.1 beta on 9.2.1 yeda:
This looks ok, apart from the fact that I had to change the font in simple text
in order to viw the text from mozilla.
Perhaps it was fixed by bug 108029?

Comment 11

[Yuying Long]

It WFM on latest branch build / Mac 9.2.1, although bug 108029 only checked in
trunk build.

Mark as verified.