332510 - Protected space character doesn't work in Compose window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 290565

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Rotis]

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: TB version 1.5 (20051201)

A standard feature on MacOSX systems is the protected space character. That means every program has to take care of that. If you write "10 miles" with a protected space char then every program working with text knows 'I may not rewrap this, I have either rewrap before "10 miles" or after "10 miles", this I have to do'. Thunderbird ignores that and so my mails look like written by a fool. "10" on one line and "miles" on the next. This should be fixed. If someone writes a protected space character in the Compose window TB should take care of that. If Windows and Linux users don't care, OK. But Mac users DO CARE, therefore they use Macs. They are perfectionists! :-)

BTW: A protected space character is written with the keystroke ALT-SPACE.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Maybe related to bug 290565 and/or Core bug 194498 -> Core bug 218277?

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

IIUC, Alt-Space means (space + 0x80) i.e. Latin1 0xA0 or Unicode U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE. I agree that that character should prohibit a linebreak at that point on every platform.

Bug 290565 describes the same behaviour in the MailNews Core product (code common to Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Mail & News): I believe this is a dupe.