165003 - Copy/Paste pastes garbaged characters

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 164940

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Tomas Pihl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020827

If copying some text from either an URL in the Location field or from somewhere
in the browser (browsing som text) will result in garbaged text.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto eg www.cnn.com
2. Mark the URL "http://www.cnn.com"
3. Press Ctrl-C (Windows) or choose Copy with right mouse button
4. Paste this somewhere, eg. in a Notepad window.
5. The result is: ���������/
��+�+

Comment 1

[Tomas Pihl]

Hmm...found a bunch of other reports. Mark this as a dupe. Sorry...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164940 ***

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

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