114337 - can't paste latin1-chars from X-selections in forms any more

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Andreas Reuleaux]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120
BuildID:    20011120

What formerly was possible in Mozilla/Netscape isn't any more in 0.9.6: Pasting
latin1-chars (a-Umlaut e.g.) in forms. - Living in Germany I use latin1 chars
quite a lot. I do have a US keyboard though, because it is more convenient for
programming. I therefore used to produce some latin1 chars in (X)Emacs
(standard-display-european and iso-accents-mode and then typing e.g. "a, "A, "s
etc.) and then select them in X and paste them in web forms, this doesn't work
any more in 0.9.6, I just checked: it still works in Netscape6.2 which is not
too old.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. produce some latin1 chars e.g. in xemacs (see above)
2. select them with the left mouse button (Linux, X-Windows)
3. try to paste them in any web page form with the middle mouse button 

Actual Results:  ? is diplayed

Expected Results:  ä, ß,  ö, etc. (hope you can read this: a-umlaut etc.,
copied from another web-page within mozilla)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

editor

Comment 2

[kinmoz]

If you submit the form, does it submit the correct characters? I'm trying to
find out if this is just a display problem. It sounds like a font/encoding
problem to me.

Cc'ing ftang and bstell.

Comment 3

[Andreas Reuleaux]

Yes, submitting the form does submit the correct characters,
I can see the correct chars in the database later
(copying the chars from some other web-page into the X-selection in
the first place). So copying latin1 chars within mozilla works fine.

Just copying from outside apps (emacs e.g.) is broken, and I should mention
that the opposite direction is broken too: selecting latin1 chars on
some web page and pasting them in (x)emacs gives me question marks too.

Maybe you are right in that it is just a diplay/font problem
(Andreas Reuleaux, Reporter of the original bug)
 

Comment 4

[Vadim Berezniker]

reporter, is this still a problem in recent builds or 0.9.9?

Comment 5

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

It works for me and there was no response in more than a month -> WFM.

pi

Comment 6

[sujay]

verified.