119920 - Pasting fails for characters in upper half of ISO-8859

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Attempting to paste characters like ["o] and [ae] into xterm end up showing the
'?' character instead. Web page specifies ISO-8859-1 and my xterm has a
iSO-8859-1 font. Also broken the other way around... pasting in 0xc0 - 0xd0 shows:

     0xc0 192

Comment 1

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Well, there WERE question marks after that '192'... form submit must have
striped them. Possible another issue. &c0;

Comment 2

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Attachment: high bit characters

Testcase. Can't paste these into an rxvt or other Gtk+ or GNOME apps. Pasting
into an xterm DOES seem to work, guess it's using Unicode rather then their
real charset.

Comment 3

[Tom Mraz]

I think it could be caused by some misconfiguration of Gtk+ but I could be
wrong. You can't paste any accented characters from the testcase? 
I don't have any problems with pasting accented characters into a Gtk+
application  from ISO-8859-2 charset. But I have set the LC environment
variables to cs_CZ which is my language.
So I've tried to setup correct environment (LC_CTYPE or LANG is enough) for for
example french language fr_FR. Then I've started new gnome-terminal with this
environment and mozilla too. It pasted all the characters fine. So I'm resolving
this as an INVALID bug.
Please REOPEN if you think that mozilla shouldn't conform to the charset
specified by language in it's environment LC variables. But then I would rather
resolve it as WONTFIX ;-)

Comment 4

[Terri Preston]

Verified