311386 - The text copied is not pasted as is, but different characters are used.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Mirco Romanato]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Thunderbird/1.4 ID:2005090804

It happened coping a small text excerpt from a web page.
http://www.vatican.va/jubilee_2000/magazine/documents/ju_mag_june-sept-1996_fortino_it.html

The text was copy&pasted two time with the same result.
Coping & pasting a smaller snipped the problem don't happened


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy a not really short text from a web page using Firefox
2. Pasted it in Thunderbird mail composer window. 



Actual Results:  
The text resulting was different from the text copied.


Expected Results:  
The text pasted is always the same of the text copied.

I checked the text copied pasting it in notepad and in Thunderbird.
The first was correct, the latter corrupted.
The weird thing is that a "vv" became "w" and "l" became "I"

The text was copy&pasted two time with the same result.
Coping & pasting a smaller snipped the problem don't happened.

Retring again this, the corruption happened again in a different way (only "vv"
to "w" change.
Repasting the same text after the first C&P the corruption don't happened.
It don't happened pasting it a reply to another mail.

Trying again, it happened more times is a C&P the block without adding a newline.
Adding the newline the corruption don't happened again.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This is a very strange report.  I'm not able to reproduce the problem, using FF 
1.0.7 and TB 1.5b2-1006.  I tried copying the first four paragraphs (there's a 
"vv" in the fourth paragraph) and pasting it resulted in exactly what you'd 
expect.  Exactly which fragment of text did you copy?

Comment 2

[Mirco Romanato]

I rechecked the text and I find I did a mistake.
There is actually a writing error in the text.
Simply the text have two times the same word, the first is wroted right the
second not. This confused me as I focalized on the single word and not on the
surronding text.
I'm sorry for the hassle caused.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

=> Invalid per reporter's comment 2.