32412 - © not displayed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 30840

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Reproduce:
Send with any mailer a plain text mail containing the following string:
foo(c), bar

Actual result:
Simone reported, she saw
foo, bar
on Win98. She tried fixed and variable width fonts (change that in "Mail &
Newsgroups" pref panel) and used commercial M14 build #31711.

Expected result:
You'll see
fooO, bar
where "0" is the copyright sign (HTML 4.0 entity "©").

Additional Comments:
The problem might also appear for
foo(r), bar
where (r) is replayed with the regitrated trademark sign ("®").

It works fine for me on Linux (both trunk and M14). Mac not tested.

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I should add, that the fact, that the expected result is the copyright sign, not
"(c)", is due to a recognition feature of the TXT->HTML converter
<http://www.bucksch.org/1/projects/mozilla/16507>.

Comment 2

[troy]

Looks like a font issue

Comment 3

[Erik van der Poel]

© (copyright) itself works on Win98, so this is probably a problem with
the TXT->HTML converter. Reassigning to Phil. Please forward to the right
person. It would be a good idea to try "foo(c), bar" and "foo(c) bar" to see if
the comma has anything to do with it.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

Are you sure it's ok to replace (c) with © ?
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html says © is legally recognized
but (c) is not.  You don't want a sender to think everyone's going to see a
© when most will see a (c).

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

> so this is probably a problem with the TXT->HTML converter. Reassigning to
> Phil. Please forward to the right person.

I wrote the converter. It puts out "©" in both cases; define "DEBUG_BenB"
and recompile mozilla/netwerk/streamconv/converters, if you don't believe me.
REASSIGN back to erik.

I'll download a M14 Windows build, reboot into Windows :-( and test more.

> © is legally recognized but (c) is not.

Aaaaaarrrrrrggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate this legal crap. I'll file a new bug on it.

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Temporarly reassign to me, so phil doesn't have to care.

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

Legal stuff about (c) != ©  ->  Bug 32420 (thanks, [e-mail])

Comment 8

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

OK, I can second Simone's report. I'm using build 2000-03-10-05 on Win95 and I
don't see © in Mail, even if a space is before and after it. I do see it in
the browser, however.

REASSIGN to erik (this time for real). Erik, the browser mostly uses Western for
me, Mailnews Unicode. Could that be the reason?

Comment 9

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

> I'm using build 2000-03-10-05 on Win95



If I'm not completely confused, this is

<ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/2000-03-19-06-M15-nb1b/mozill-win32-installer.exe>



Anyway, I downloaded build 2000-03-19-06-M15-nb1b for Linux and see the same

bug! I do not see it with M14-crypto Linux build 2000-03-03-16 or my M15 Linux

build from 2000-03-07-08. So, it looks like a XP regression on the Netscape

Beta1 branch.

Comment 10

[Phil Peterson]

cc rhp

Comment 11

[Frank Tang]

I think erik is right. I set a break point at nsScanner::Append 
(mozilla/htmlparser/src/nsScanner.cpp) I saw a space instead of a "©" in 
the place the "(c)". 

Comment 12

[Erik van der Poel]

Re-assign to [e-mail] based on ftang's comment.

Comment 13

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Yes, with my last comment, this makes sense. But I don't have a nb1b tree, so
over to mscott, who made the last changes in mozTXTToHTMLConv, for
investigation.

Comment 14

[Frank Tang]

forget about my earily comment. My build do not have mscott's lateset check in 
in the nsTXTToHTMLConv.cpp
After I update nsTXTToHTMLConv.cpp, it show the copy sign to me. Is this a dup 
of 30840

Comment 15

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

tnx, ftang.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30840 ***

Comment 16

[Chris Petersen]

Marking verified dup of 30840.