194032 - Text modifiers in other languages

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 106028

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, enhancement)

Description

[Eghost]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

Text modifiers, such as *xxx* /xxx/ _xxx_ are not supported in other locales.
For example, *IMHO* is written in bold font, while *ИМХО* is left as is.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Mozilla Mail&News shows "plain text" instead of modifying text as needed in
other languages.

Expected Results:  
Modify text (bold, itallic, underline)

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

related/dup of bug 106028

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Looks like a dupe of bug 106028 to me, if character entity references are
resolved before applying this algorithm.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106028 ***

Comment 3

[marina]

verified