476909 - Copying text from Firefox 3.1 beta 2 (Mac) to any application does not keep encoding.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 466599

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Vincent Martínez]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2

Whenever I copy text from a site in Firefox 3.1 beta 2, and paste it into any other application, non-english characters (or even some blank characters in english) appear broken. For example, copying the word "policía" from a spanish newspaper site gives me: "policía".

This does not happen when I copy from other browsers such as Safari, or Firefox 3 (stable build). It also does not happen when you paste the text into a Firefox input or textfield. 

Also, other metadata such as font type or size is not kept when pasting. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to any UTF-8 encoded page and copy text with non-english characters (for example, www.elpais.es, a Spanish newspaper, look for á, í, é, ó, ú, ñ... etc)
2. Paste the text into another application, for example TextEdit (or whatever other editor or textfield in any program). ***
3. If all goes as planned, the encoding will miss and paste garbage. 

*** Pasting the text again into Firefox works correctly, you can check that pasting the same text in the search bar or the url bar. 
Actual Results:  
I copied the following text: 
"Sus directivos cobrarán un máximo de 500.000 $.- El presidente dice que el actual sistema de retribuciones "es de mal gusto y además una mala estrategia"

When I pasted it in TextEdit, it gave me:
"Sus directivos cobrarán un máximo de 500.000 $.- El presidente dice que el actual sistema de retribuciones "es de mal gusto y además una mala estrategia"

Expected Results:  
It should have pasted the characters correctly

Using Firefox 3.1 beta 2 universal build in x86, this does not happen in the stable build for Mac OS X. OS: mac os x 10.5.6

Comment 1

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

> Also, other metadata such as font type or size is not kept when pasting.

This is bug 428096, which is fixed in recent Shiretoko (FF 3.1, aka 1.9.1-branch) and Minefield (trunk, aka mozilla-central) nightlies.

Comment 2

[Frankie]

The encoding issue is either a duplicate or a regression of bug 466599. 

I guess if I want to find out I'll need to download FF 3.5.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode or a fresh profile? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles