343377 - Copying a no-break-space from source

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 79864

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Sheets]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

If you have a literal no-break-space in your source code you will get a normal space when you copy/paste the source from the view source window. Note by this I mean a typed no-break-space not a  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open page containing literal no-break-spaces.
2. View source.
3. Copy all.
4. Paste into a text editor.
5. Show invisibles to see the difference. (In TextMate or BBEdit, etc)

Actual Results:  
Recieved spaces instead of no-break-spaces.

Expected Results:  
No-break-spaces should have been preserved.

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

Does Firefox behave the same way?  What version of Camino are you running? (In the future, please file Camino bugs using Camino, so that the build information is gathered automatically.)

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Pretty sure this is bug 79864; at least, bug 79864 will mask the cause of this if it's not.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79864 ***