300824 - Numeric entities not displayed properly on view selection source

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 236465

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Leslie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Numeric entities such as A display simplay as A and not the true source code
when you choose "view selection source" from the right-click menu. Doesn't
happen when you use the view, page source menu option.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a page with numeric entities.
2. Select the text.
3. Right click the selection, and choose "view selection source"

Actual Results:  
The numeric entites display simply as normal text.

Expected Results:  
The entity html to display instead.

Comment 1

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

Duped as per Gavin's request.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236465 ***

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Just FYI, the code displayed in "view selection source" isn't the "true source
code", it's the DOM source, which explains why this bug is a dupe of that one.