131063 - Surrogate characters can not be pasted into XP MS word as source format

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[Yuying Long]

Build: 03-14 trunk build

Steps:
1. Load a page that contains surrogate characters, e.g.:
   http://warp/u/ftang/utf8test/gb18030.cgi?page=596
2. Highlight a character and copy/paste into MS WinXP word.

Result:
Will be pasted as a small square by default(original source format).  A work
around is paste as text only.
(there are 3 options, only this one will work)

IE can be pasted in all 3 options.

Also with gb2312 or non-surrogate 18030 characters can be pasted as original
source format.

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

I think we somehow does not generate NCR correctly for surroagte, that may cause
the problem. reassign to ftang for now. 

Comment 2

[Frank Tang]

assign

Comment 3

[Frank Tang]

give to shanjian. I think this is a serialization issue. We save into a wrong
&#; NCR (two NCR for one surrogate pair instead of one). I think it is a dup of
one bug already assign to shanjian
This is NOT a high priority item. But we should fix it by Q4 2002

Comment 4

[Shanjian Li]

if frank's guess is true, this is most likely a duplicate of one of my existing
bug. I have no way to verify it because I don't have the latest word software. I
am aware of the problem mentioned by frank  and it should have been fixed in my
local tree. 

Comment 5

[Frank Tang]

this might be dup of 137657

Comment 6

[Frank Tang]

I want to see we solve all surrogate editing problem by m1.2final. mark it as
nsbeta1+ and tm=m1.2beta

Comment 7

[Shanjian Li]

I didn't see any problem with my local build. I will keep it open until I check
in my other surrogate patch. 

Comment 8

[Marek Z. Jeziorek]

batch: adding topembed per Gecko2 document
http://rocknroll.mcom.com/users/marek/publish/Gecko/Gecko2Tasks.html

Comment 9

[Shanjian Li]

It works fine on build 2002100409, after those surrogate conversion patches
checked in. 

Comment 10

[Yuying Long]

This actually still exising in 06-10 1.4 branch build, re-open...

Comment 11

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

Original demonstration page has disapeared.

I did some test, but unfortunately without the needed fonts so I only saw
questions marks.

With http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=67079&action=view
All three paste method are problematic. Raw and unicode give twice more question
mark than the number of selected character. 
HTML insert gives one question mark less than the number of character copied if
3 or more character were selected. When selecting only one or two character, I
get nothing.

With http://www.unicode.org/charts/collation/chart_Cypriot.html
HTML seems correct. Raw and unicode still give twice more question mark than the
number of selected character.

Comment 12

[Frank Tang]

shanjian is no longer working on mozilla for 2 years and these bugs are still
here. Mark them won't fix. If you want to reopen it, find a good owner first. 

Comment 13

[Jungshik Shin]

Perhaps, depends on bug 239279

Comment 14

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

I don't have XP Word here to test, but as far as I can tell from the clipboard
viewer this may be WORKSFORME. Note that an unrelated bug (bug 120114) affecting
Cypriot characters was fixed a little while ago.

Comment 15

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

All 3 paste methods seem correct in current trunk.