1351965 - Word is not bolded in plain text when between asterisks if it ends on a number

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 950605

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[karaluh]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20170303012758

Steps to reproduce:

I am using enhanced plain text e-mail formatting in some of my server logs. To distinguish parts of the e-mail I bold some words by enclosing them in asterisks.


Actual results:

The words that end with a number aren't displayed in bold.


Expected results:

All words enclosed in asterisks displayed in bold in enhanced plain text.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Yes, I can confirm that, *bold* shows in bold, *bold123* does not.

It looks like this is intentional, we'd have to ask the original author why.

Relevant code:
https://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/4c7c05a49f3ce40aa0969beccb397380a8907f4a/mozilla/netwerk/streamconv/converters/mozTXTToHTMLConv.cpp#658
https://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/4c7c05a49f3ce40aa0969beccb397380a8907f4a/mozilla/netwerk/streamconv/converters/mozTXTToHTMLConv.cpp#1127

Ben?

Comment 2

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

Duplicate of Bug 950605

Comment 3

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

(In reply to Jorg K (GMT+1) from comment #1)
> Yes, I can confirm that, *bold* shows in bold, *bold123* does not.
> 
> It looks like this is intentional, we'd have to ask the original author why.

Please refer:
Bug 106028 Comment #22 and
Bug 106028 Comment #63

Comment 4

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

(In reply to Alfred Peters from comment #2)
> Duplicate of Bug 950605

Better:
Duplicate of Bug 949066

Comment 5

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Bug 949066 has a horrible discussion and was closed as WONTFIX, as per bug 949066 comment #8, bug 950605 was filed for this purpose. Thanks for triaging, Alfred.