162472 - Accented text copied in Chimera doesn't paste correctly in another application

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[John Ender]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020812
BuildID:    20022081205

In Chimera, I found some pb with accents in french, when copying a text from a
page to Entourage or Word : é goes É and so on with all letters like à é ç...
(Using Arial default font)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. I go on a web page
2. I copy a the text
3. I paste it in an other application

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

John, what Build ID are you reporting this bug against? (Check the About
window.) Also, can you provide an example URL?

Reassigning to Chimera/General. Related to/dup of bug 161813?

Comment 2

[Winnie Lam]

copy/paste stuff -> cc: bryner

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

John, never mind about the build ID. You already reported that in comment 0.

Comment 4

[John Ender]

Ok, i found so more info : the text paste onto a cocoa app does'nt show any pb.
The pb with accents are only concerning carbon non-cocoa app. You can go with
Chimera (2002081405) on whatever page where their is text with accent; copy a
word and paste it in Word, Explorer search bar or Entourage, and you get the
silly things, but not in Mail, Proteus or Textedit...
Cocoa ! or leave it ;-)

ender

Comment 5

[Jussi Sirpoma]

In build 2002082704 I could not even paste the build number from the about:
page. Pasting from other applications is working as expected.

Comment 6

[Sean Harding]

I'm seeing a bug like this in build 2002082708 on MacOS X 10.2 (plain Mozilla,
NOT Chimera!). Text copied from Mozilla and pasted shows up as Asian text or
control characters. This happens even within Mozilla. For example, I'll copy the
build ID from my first sentence and paste it here: ���������. That looks
like some Asian characters, question marks and other random stuff. 

Copy and paste in and between other apps works fine.

Any thoughts on whether or not this is the same bug?

Comment 7

[Sean Harding]

Oops. My problem is probably Bug 164940. Nevermind.

Comment 8

[adam rice]

I'm getting similar problems with Japanese source text (have confirmed with both
S-JIS and Unicode source pages).

Interestingly, a paste into mail.app message works OK, but a paste into some
other apps (notably Word) results in a string of question marks equal to the
number of copied characters.

This is *not* a problem with Mozilla 1.1, fwiw. I am currently encountering it
in Chimera 2002102904, but have been seeing it for a while.

Comment 9

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

We probably need the fix here to copy some 'styl' along with the text.

Comment 10

[adam rice]

Here's an interesting experiment that I think is related to this problem:

1. Bring up a Japanese page in Chimera (assuming your system has Japanese
support installed).

2. Select a chunk of text.

3. Drag-and-drop it to the Finder.

This will create a clipping file. The *title* will be [Japanese
text].textClipping, but the *contents* will be a string of question marks.

Things get more interesting: Create a blank message in Mail.app and drag this
clipping file into it. The correct Japanese text will appear.

I discussed this problem with Sergey Kurkin, author of a Japanese dictionary app
(which doesn't cooperate with Chimera on cut-n-paste operations), and his
comment was "Before, Macintosh standard treated text as text buffer + font
information. Currently languages and encodigns are recognized too. Some programs
support only old style text import/export,  some - only new, and some - all.
JEDict belongs to first group, Chimera I guess is from second group."

Comment 11

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Chimera puts unicode on the clipboard, for unicode-aware apps (like TextEdit).
Non-unicode apps require some kind of encoding information to determine what
charset the clipboard text is in. The trunk fix for this bug was to put 'styl'
data on the clipboard with a font appropriate for the copied text. The downside
of that is that all copies from Chimera than paste styled text, which is usually
not what the users wants. I don't know of another solution.

Comment 12

[Frankie]

Is this a dupe of bug 79864?

Comment 13

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

this was fixed on the trunk