834294 - Missing space between words

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 812638

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[wimadrid]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130116073211

Steps to reproduce:

ISSUE
When writing an email, some words end up lacking a space between them

REPRODUCTION
- In any string, select some text
- Hit delete or backspace
- Without moving the cursor, hit the spacebar (if you like, multiple times)
- Click "send"

Example: the123dog
- select 123
- delete 123
- insert space
After sending, my copy in the Sent Folder has thedog, the recipient sees the same.

CONFIGURATION: 
- Mac 10.7.5 - TB 17.0.2
- I compose in HTML
- text size: x-large
- In Preferences / Composition / Send Options / Text Format
under "When sending messages in HTML format and one or more recipients are not listed as being able to receive HTML:" I have: "Convert the message to plain text"
- All of my contacts are listed as "Prefers to receive messages formatted as: Unknown"

WORKAROUND
Instead of "Convert the message to plain text", I changed to "Send the message in HTML anyway"

SEVERITY
Whereas an additional space could be considered as a cosmetic flaw, missing spaces like these create spelling errors.  

Regards,
wimadrid



Actual results:

space gone - sorry, I do not see how to break up logically what I wrote in the first box


Expected results:

space should have stayed - sorry, idem

Comment 1

[wimadrid]

I suppose this is related to Bugs 821215 and 823523
I hope you find the description of how to reproduce useful

Don't mind if you dup this

Comment 3

[wimadrid]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #2)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 823523 ***

After following many more reports, I think it should be marked as a duplicate of 812638 
"(font_size_bloat) TB is inserting/adding loads of redundant/incorrect/random <font size="x"> tags in the middle of corrected words (partially erased with backspace or DEL, then retyped) with certain valid font size attributes in HTML message source; causes spelling issues"