1046869 - Copy from source: null character / zero byte and everything after it is lost.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1818910

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P5)

Description

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: The page as it currently stands.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140715214327

Steps to reproduce:

Attempted to copy/paste the contents of View Source for the page currently live at:
 - http://courts.delaware.gov/opinions/list.aspx?ag=supreme%20court

And attached as downloaded by wget. 


Actual results:

Instead of copying all of the text, it copied the text up to a poorly encoded character around line 400, then stopped.


Expected results:

When I pasted the source into an editor, it should have pasted everything. In fact, when I do this on Chrome, I'm able to copy everything.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I can copy-paste everything, although I'm checking on OS X and with 32 beta...

What character is causing the problem, do you know? Can you try on a newer version of Firefox (beta or nightly or such) ?

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

Line 401 in the attached has the following content:

</a></strong><a href='mailto:?subject=Delaware Supreme Court: Matter of McManus&body=Order{SOME-EVIL-THING}Writ of Certiorari http://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?ID=209390'>

I don't know what the evil character is (and I *abhor* enconding issues!), but I can tell you that I can't copy/paste that line in either Nightly (33.0a1 (2014-07-07)) or Firefox 31.

In the source code, the character shows up as the weird square block thing, with the numbers 0 0 0 0 inside.

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

(In reply to Mike Lissner from comment #2)
> In the source code, the character shows up as the weird square block thing,
> with the numbers 0 0 0 0 inside.

Same here.  A null character?

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Indeed, it's a null character. My hex editor says that "r<strange>W" is: 72 00 57.

Moving this to core, although I'm not sure where it would belong... it might even be the OS clipboard, for all I know (esp. because it works on OS X - the 0 byte seems to just be stripped out).

Comment 5

[[:Aleksej]]

I can copy it in GVim, I can copy-paste it in GVim, but then not paste into gedit (nothing is copied).

If I open it in gedit, it is declared a character invalid for the encoding, and rendered as "\00" (3 separate characters, but displayed red).

Ctrl+Shift+U, 0000  beeps and does not insert anything.

Comment 6

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1552613