119899 - hebrew text copied from simple text appears as junk when pasted into a textare

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Shoshannah Forbes]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020111
BuildID:    20022011108

hebrew text copied from simple text appears as junk when pasted into a textare

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write some mixed Hebrew/English text in simple text Hebrew
2. Copy the text and paste into a textare of a logical web page in mozilla


Actual Results:  the Hebrew text is junk, roman text is ok

Expected Results:  all text should be ok

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Mac-specific Bidi bug -> ftang

Comment 2

[Frank Tang]

similar to bug 119877

Comment 3

[Frank Tang]

give to nhotta, we should take a look at 'STYL' clipboard format too. if it have
a font of a certain script, we could return that charset as the clipboard charset. 

Comment 4

[Frank Tang]

nsbeta1- per triage meeting

Comment 5

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Is there anything we can do to help this bug get fixed soner. IMO, these
problems   (together with bug 119877 ) 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 6

[Jeffrey Tang]

I have to say that this bug is not limited to Mac platform or Hebrew text,
because I am using Windows 2000 server with Mozilla 0.9.9 , and encounter the
same problem when dealing with Chinese (Big5) text. The 8-bit is stripped when
pasted into a
text area.

Comment 7

[Shoshannah Forbes]

just tested this with mozilla 1.1b on mac os 9.2.1 from yeda, and this looks ok.
Anyone else still getting this bug?

Comment 8

[nhottanscp]

I think this was fixed by the change for 'styl' support.