326189 - Thunderbird dropping closing parenthesis for urls on links

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 133016

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[moz.champion]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Created a message in Thunderbird referencing the above url
Message posted to newsgroup, user clicking on entry sent to a page with no text

when Thunderbird displays the message, the final closing parenthesis is not included in the link

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Write message in plain text
2. Copy paste (or type) in http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reducing_memory_usage_(Firefox)
3. Send Message
4. When message received Thunderbird shows the link as
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reducing_memory_usage_(Firefox
with the closing ) parenthesis shown as black (non link)

Actual Results:  
Url is sent but is incorrect and results in errors when clicked on due to missing close parenthesis

Expected Results:  
Link should be reproduced exactly as entered 

Error can be seen simply but sending the link in a message to yourself
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reducing_memory_usage_(Firefox)
and noting how the end parenthesis is NOT considered part of the link but is considered normal text.

Workaround is to enclose links thusly
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reducing_memory_usage_(Firefox)>

Comment 1

[moz.champion]

(In reply to comment #0)

Further information. Firefox seems to have the same effect
i.e ) are treated as non link (link breaking) characters
however ( is not

i.e.
http://test.url(no-org/(test(situation
shows as a link
but replace any of the ( opening parenthesis with a closing parenthesis )
and the link is broken at that point

http://test.url(no-org/(test)situation
http://test.url(no-org/)test(situation
http://test.url)no-org/(test)situation

Comment 2

[moz.champion]

Firefox doesnt break the links as Thunderbird does

in TB any instance of ) breaks the link
in FF only if the ) is followed by a space (or null) character does it break

http://test.url.no-org/test(situation)
note how even here the final ) is link breaking (not included in the link)
in TB the problem is exaberated because it seems ANY ) breaks the link at the point of insertion.

Comment 3

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 313252 -> Core bug 133016.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133016 ***