Closed
Bug 305486
Opened 19 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
prettyprinting of superscripts leads to information loss in copy/paste
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 290274
People
(Reporter: rote, Assigned: mscott)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050718 Debian/1.7.8-1sarge1 Build Identifier: Thunderbird:version 1.0.2 (20050331) Text like "1.234*10^5" in a message is rendered with a superscipt 5 replacing the "^" sign when reading the mail. When copying and pasting this text to a new message, it will appear as "1.234*105". This problem does not apply to *highlighting* and _underscoring_ and to emoticons ;.-) Also, when including a copy of the message text in a "Reply"-message, everything is fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. sent a message containing "10^12" to yourself 2. read the received message (or the stored message in the Sent folder) 3. mark the resulting text, which appears as "10 superscript 12", with the mouse 4. copy the text (Ctrl-C) 5. Write a new message (or something in another application) 6. paste the copied text (Ctrl-V) Actual Results: The pasted text appears as "1012" Expected Results: The pasted text should appear as "10^12" The bug persists when copy-pasting with the middle mouse button on unix. A somewhat tedious workaround is to open a message for REPLYing, and copy the text from there, removing the "> " indentations afterward. It would be easier if one could switch off prettyprinting. The bug is particularly annoying for copying long stretches of mathematical text, with expressions like n^2 etc.
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Comment 2•18 years ago
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Definitely a dupe. The workaround is to turn off graphic display of emoticons. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 290274 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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