Open Bug 1362004 Opened 8 years ago Updated 3 years ago

text stays bold until final *

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect, P5)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Version:
54 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: tanj.tanj, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [necko-would-take])

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 Build ID: 20170323105023 Steps to reproduce: In RSS Feed reader. (Article: Krebs on Security - Breach at Sabre Corp.'s Hospitality Unit) The article uses asterisk (*) to surround text that should be bold. Example Text: Breaches involving major players in the hospitality industry continue to pile up. Today, travel industry giant *Sabre Corp.* disclosed what could be ... Sabre said it has engaged security forensics firm *Mandiant* to support its investigation, and that it has notified law enforcement. Actual results: The text was bold from first (*) until the final (*) ei. `*Sabre` until `Mandiant*` Expected results: Only the text *Sabre Corp.* and *Mandiant* should be bold.
Yes, sadly the detection of what should be bold is a little temperamental :-( The source to this is in Mozilla-core: netwerk/streamconv/converters/mozTXTToHTMLConv.cpp
Component: Untriaged → Networking
Product: Thunderbird → Core
Whiteboard: [necko-would-take]
Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258
Priority: -- → P5
Severity: normal → S3
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