405526 - copying and pasting in Composer produces strange characters

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 369392

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Johannes Leushuis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071030 SeaMonkey/1.1.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071030 SeaMonkey/1.1.6

If I go to www.medjugorje.hr, click English, copy the top monthly message including the quotes, paste it in a new Composer window, save or publish the page and view the page, then the page shows up with strange characters. More specific, the special double quotes at the beginning and end of the message are corrupted. Worse, if I paste the message in an already existing page with older messages then all special characters in that page are corrupted. I remember that older versions of Seamonkey or Mozilla Composer didn't have that problem. And NVU 1.0 does this alright.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

confirming
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071030 SeaMonkey/1.1.6

http://medjugorje.hr.nt4.ims.hr/News.aspx is UTF-8

“Dear children! Today, when you celebrate Christ, the King of all that is created, I desire for Him to be the King of your lives. Only through giving, little children, can you comprehend the gift of Jesus´ sacrifice on the Cross for each of you. Little children, give time to God that He may transform you and fill you with His grace, so that you may be a grace for others. For you, little children, I am a gift of grace and love, which comes from God for this peaceless world. Thank you for having responded to my call.”

text looks fine here and in composer, UTF-8

text saved as "medjugorje" is saved as "medjugorje.html" and loads into navigator as Western(ISO-8859-1)
Setting   View -> Character Encoding -> UTF-8 is showing text correctly.

Sourceview in composer is showing <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"> and this is saved with the file. Preview/Normal View in Composer (of the pasted text) are showing the quotes correctly.

may be related:
Edit -> Preferences -> Mail&Newsgroups -> Character Encoding
all boxes unchecked, Western(ISO-8859-1) selected.

Comment 2

[Johannes Leushuis]

The generated file medjugorje.html should display the correct characters when viewed, without the user having to change the character encoding from the menu. This is what previous versions of Mozilla and Seamonkey did, and what NVU does.

But the problem has been solved with the release of Seamonkey 1.1.7: according to its release notes I think my bug is a duplicate of bug 369392. The error of Seamonkey I mentioned doesn't occur any more in this release.

Comment 3

[Hermann Schwab]

verified fixed
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7