232034 - Garbage characters when pasting (extra commas)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Robert Kieffer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5a (20040105)

I'm seeing garbage characters in text I paste from a message compose window.  
Specifically, I'm seeing two extra commas at appended to the content.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1."Reply" to a message - so that you have some quoted text (i.e. blue bar on 
the left side)
2. Double click a word in the quoted text and "ctrl-c" to copy. (In my testcase 
I selected "Flagstaff " in the middle of a line.
3. "To:" fields (just for example) and "ctrl-v" to paste.  

* Notice what you get is "Flagstaff ,,"
* Also notice you get the same thing if you paste into a field in an address 
card property dialog (i.e. it's not just the email field doing some wierd 
formatting).

4.  Try pasting into, for example, a textarea in a web page

* You get "Flagstaff\n\n" (line feeds there, not literal slash-n's)


Expected Results:  
Seems like the pasteboard should just contain "Flagstaff ", but there's 
something about the content contained there that causes odd/varying pastes.

Comment 1

[Robert Kieffer]

Line 3, above should read "Place insertion point in a 'To:' field in the 
compose window and ctrl-v to paste"

Comment 2

[Benedikt Kantus]

wfm build 20040120 Win2k

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

> * Notice what you get is "Flagstaff ,,"

Robert Kieffer, are you still seeing this symptom with the commas?  I cannot 
reproduce it with TB 0.9+1126, Win2K.

> * You get "Flagstaff\n\n"

I do see this, when the quoted text is copied from the HTML mail editor; copying 
from the plain-text mail editor does not have this result.  The conversion takes 
place in any plain-text paste sink, at least under Windows.

Note that the text copied from a quote is placed within a <pre> tag; <pre> is a 
block element and so is supposed to get special handling in an HTML-aware paste 
sink.  I think the plain-text part of the clipboard buffer is also configured by 
Mozilla, tho; not sure if it's a Windows thing or the same on all platforms.

See bug 161309, bug 208128, bug 271010.

Comment 4

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

WFM per comment #2 and comment #3.