1571532 - Spaces around words in italics are removed when pasting text copied from PDF documents

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1569932

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

Description

[Eddy Young]

Attachment: Screenshot showing the manifestation of the bug

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

These steps describe how to reproduce the bug in Firefox 68.0.1 under Windows 10 version 1903.

1. Open a PDF document in Firefox.
2. Highlight a phrase that contains at least one word in the middle of the text.
3. Press Ctrl-C (or right-click and select Copy) to copy the selection to the clipboard.
4. Open Notepad.
5. Press Ctrl-V (or right-click and select Paste) to paste the content of the clipboard.

Actual results:

The spaces around the word(s) in italics are not present in the pasted text.

Expected results:

The spaces around the word(s) in italics should have been preserved.

Comment 1

[Eddy Young]

Cheeky assignment to @mconley because I'd like to see this fixed on The Joy of Coding ;-)

Comment 2

[Eddy Young]

(In reply to Eddy Young from comment #0)

Created attachment 9083110 [details]
Screenshot showing the manifestation of the bug

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

These steps describe how to reproduce the bug in Firefox 68.0.1 under Windows 10 version 1903.

1. Open a PDF document in Firefox.
2. Highlight a phrase that contains at least one word in italics in the middle of the text.
3. Press Ctrl-C (or right-click and select Copy) to copy the selection to the clipboard.
4. Open Notepad.
5. Press Ctrl-V (or right-click and select Paste) to paste the content of the clipboard.

Actual results:

The spaces around the word(s) in italics are not present in the pasted text.

Expected results:

The spaces around the word(s) in italics should have been preserved.