7538 - Editor: Editing text munges high ASCII characters

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 6208

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Description

[cpratt]

build id: 1999060208
platform: windows nt

to reproduce: open an Editor window and type something that includes high ASCII.
I typed "Schön daß Du da bist". Then, go ahead and click somewhere else in the
document, click back into that sentence, type something & backspace (I can't say
for sure WHAT needs to be done exactly to reproduce this). What I then see
instead of what I typed is "Schn da* Du da bist" where * represents a weird
glyph that looks kind of like two upside-down "A"s on the top of a fraction with
and upside down "IIS" on the bottom.

Comment 1

[buster]

I believe this is a duplicate of the nsString2 bug Joe and Simon already found
and fixed. Assigning to Joe, cc simon and rickg.

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

This is more likely due to our complete inability to handle non-ASCII text,
and as such is a dup of bug 6208


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6208 ***

Comment 3

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Here's one sure way to reproduce this problem.

1. Start the editor or Mail composer
2. Pick a new line to start inserting characters.
3. Now input some non-ASCII Latin 1 characters -- cpratt's
   example will do.
4. Now, press CR. This will cause the problem orginally reported
   by cpratt. Whta you see there seems to be a Korean character.
5. Go back to the line in step 4 and add some more accented Latin 1
   characters. Now try pressing the CR. This time the problem will not
   occur again.

Comment 4

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

By the way this is not a general Latin 1 high-bit range input
failure. They can be input and maintained if you don;t perform
certain actions -- at least one example is mentioned here.

Comment 5

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

If you see high-ascii characters change *when you hit the return key*, then
that should be fixed by the fix for bug 7479. The fix went in today.

Comment 6

[sujay]

verified this is a DUP...