180451 - Spaces in signature are replaced with new lines

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221596

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[http://tinymailto.com/oliversl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021115
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021115

If you use a signature file in WinXP with this path:
R:\directory\signature.txt
and the signature is a plain text Windows file, in the Compose window you see
that all space caracters are replaced with new line caracters.
This is only a display issue, because the new lines are not included in the
email when you send it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure to use a windows .txt file
2. Start composing a new email
3. Note the new line in the signature

Actual Results:  
New lines are inserted instead of spaces

Expected Results:  
The signature file should be displayed the same as in the .txt file

Comment 1

[http://tinymailto.com/oliversl]

Attachment: Compose window

Screenshot showing the signature problem

Comment 2

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

I am not able to reproduce this broblem on WinXP with build a recent debug
build! Oliver, have you tried a more recent build?

Comment 3

[http://tinymailto.com/oliversl]

Hi Jean, I can confirm it solved.
I created a new profile and created a new signature file and not it work.
The same procedure does reproduce the bug when I use my production profile, so
there is something wrong with my production profile. :-(
I tested used BuildID:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021120

Comment 4

[http://tinymailto.com/oliversl]

Do you know maybe where the problem can be in a profile? Thanks

Comment 5

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

can you open with a text editor your prefs.js file (in the profile folder which
has the trouble) and check if you have the following line:

user_pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);

Let me know. Thanks

Comment 6

[http://tinymailto.com/oliversl]

Hi Jean,
no, I don't have that line in my profile's pref.js
Thanks

Comment 7

[http://tinymailto.com/oliversl]

Found the problem!
If you use this line:
user_pref("mailnews.wraplength", 0);
then you see the problem in the signature.
I could reproduce this bug using that line in my pref.js
Thanks for the help.

I don't know if this is a bug anymore or if I should not use that line at all.

Comment 8

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Thanks for the finding. As this bug doesn't seem too bad, I'll look at it later...

Comment 9

[Greg K.]

I noticed this bug occurs when "Compose messages in HTML format" is checked, but
not when it's unchecked.

Comment 10

[Greg K.]

(Oh, I set All/All since I'm using FizzillaMach/2003032013.)

Comment 11

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

xref bug 261467.

Comment 12

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221596 ***