673858 - when starting a reply with only the selection quoted, Thunderbird eats ^ signs

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Paolo Bonzini]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110622105328

Steps to reproduce:

1. Find a message with a superscript (e.g. 2^31).
2. Select a portion of the message which includes the superscript.
3. Click "reply"


Actual results:

The quoted text included in the reply shows "231" instead of "2^31".


Expected results:

The quoted text should match the original message source.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

This is WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:7.0a2) Gecko/20110811 Thunderbird/7.0a2. Paolo do you see the same issue if Thunderbird is started in -safe-mode ?

Comment 2

[Paolo Bonzini]

No, it still doesn't work for me in safe mode.

Just to double check, you are seeing superscripts in the message window, and you are seeing carets in the reply window?

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to Paolo Bonzini from comment #2)
> No, it still doesn't work for me in safe mode.
> 
> Just to double check, you are seeing superscripts in the message window, and
> you are seeing carets in the reply window?

Superscript and I replied to the bugemail a it was showing properly.

Comment 4

[Paolo Bonzini]

Ok, I'll try 7.0 alphas next week.  Another note---it works when replying to the whole email, only "reply and quote selection" is broken.

Comment 5

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

That's how I tested.

Comment 6

[Paolo Bonzini]

Fixed in 10.0.