159535 - Mozilla COMPOUND_TEXT support broken

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Martin v. Löwis]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; de-AT; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061103

When using the PRIMARY selection on X11, Mozilla incorrectly uses the
COMPOUND_TEXT type. For example, when copying fragments of cyrillic text,
Mozilla copies

ESC ( B ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ... (question marks)

into the target property, where ESC ( B denotes ASCII. Instead, it should use
ESC ( L (Right half of ISO 8859-5). See

http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.0/doc/ctext.TXT

for a complete list of encodings supported by CTEXT.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.On Solaris, select, in Mozilla, cyrillic text (e.g. from the page above)
2.Start Emacs 21 (to be sure it supports COMPOUND_TEXT).
3.Try pasting the text

Actual Results:  A lot of questions marks are pasted.

Expected Results:  Cyrillic characters should be pasted.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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