269534 - [mozTXTToHTMLConv] caret character '^' causes next number character to be displayed as superscript in plain text messages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Paul Fischer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 0.9 (20041103)

plain text e-mail messages should not be "interpreted" quite so heavily, the 
very message that sent me my bugzilla password could not be "read" in 
Thunderbird because the password included a carat character, which made the 
password appear incorrect in the e-mail message, this was a plain text message 
and, therefore, should not include any such formatting interpretation, I had 
to use a different e-mail program to figure out what the password actually 
was!!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. view a plain text message containing the following string: h$02VR^1
2. you will not see that string but rather something like: h$02VR1
3. where the 1 is displayed as a superscript



Expected Results:  
the thunderbird mail client agent should not perform format interpretation of 
plain text messages

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I'm sure I've seen this discussed somewhere, but I can't find the bug.

However: I don't see this behavior.  Can you provide a sample message?

Comment 2

[Paul Fischer]

I no longer have the e-mail message, but it was the bugzilla password 
notification e-mail that I received that caused me to note the problem.  The 
password in the message was "h$02VR^1" (without quotes) but displayed in 
Thunderbird as: "h$02VR1" (with the '1' shown as a superscript character).  I 
had to look at the raw e-mail message to get a copy of the password because I 
couldn't make the one displayed work!

I suggest creating a new login into bugzilla so it generates a password e-mail 
and then edit the e-mail to contain the password example above, then you 
should see the problem.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

> I had to use a different e-mail program

View Source would have worked, too.

> The password in the message was "h$02VR^1"

That "1" is not a generic character, but a number. It wouldn't happen for letters.

This is as intended. WONTFIX. I don't feel strongly either way, though. Compare
bug 268168.

> I suggest creating a new login into bugzilla so it generates a password e-mail

Just read the bugmail from your last comment.