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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #813699,
regarding iceweasel: Iceweasel don't let me insert non-breaking spaces in
textareas anymore
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813699: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813699
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 43.0.4-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
I tried to insert a non-breaking space in a form on a web page.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I first tried using the usual key combination I use to insert such
non-breaking space - this is how I do it in both LibreOffice and vim -
and, since it did not work, I then tried copying and pasting the
character from LibreOffice (since LO grey out non-breaking spaces I'm
pretty sure this was not a simple space).
* What was the outcome of this action?
The non-breaking space is converted to simple space as soon it is
inserted/pasted.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected the non-breaking space would get inserted as such.
This is the precise series of operations I made to be sure; wherever the
<nbsp> sequences appears below, please substitute the unicode U+0040
character coded in utf-8 as "c2 a0" since I use the locale fr_FR.utf8:
1. type M<nbsp>M in Libreoffice (the space looks greyed out)
2. select the 3 characters with the mouse and Ctrl-C them
3. click in a textarea in Iceweasel then Ctrl-V
4. select the 3 letters in the textarea and Ctrl-C them
5. open vim in some terminal emulator then paste with Ctrl-V
6. save the resulting file as out1.txt
7. reselect the 3 characters in LibreOffice as in 2.
8. open vim in some terminal emulator as in 5.
9. save the resulting file as out2.txt
10. run "od -c" on both files:
out1.txt : 0000000 m m
out2.txt : 0000000 m 302 240 m
Note that in order to avoid any problem with possible javascript
side-effect in the original use case (a TinyMCE editor running in some
CMS), I reproduced the problem with a new HTML file I created
with just a pair of opening and closing textarea tags in it.
In order to avoid an underlying library problem, I pasted this nbsp
character in different application with no problem :
- vim (running in different terminal emulators),
- leafpad
- libreoffice itself, most evidently
Yet, I just noticed that the same problem exhibits in Icedove, so this
bug might be reaffected to some underlying component.
HTH,
Regards,
phep
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-- Package-specific info:
-- Extensions information
Name: Adblock Plus
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Change Referer Button
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{c71ff04d-f001-1fc1-1fc1-c71ff04df001}.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Classic Theme Restorer
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled
Name: Close other tabs
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled
Name: DOM Inspector
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled
Name: DownThemAll!
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{DDC359D1-844A-42a7-9AA1-88A850A938A8}.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: En-têtes HTTP en direct
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{8f8fe09b-0bd3-4470-bc1b-8cad42b8203a}
Status: enabled
Name: Firebug
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled
Name: Français Language Pack locale
Location:
/usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/[email protected]
Package: iceweasel-l10n-fr
Status: enabled
Name: Gestionnaire de session
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{1280606b-2510-4fe0-97ef-9b5a22eafe30}.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Navigate Up
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled
Name: Neo Diggler
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{9b84cce7-a817-45d7-865e-9e6e8da1c388}.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Referrer Control
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: user-disabled
Name: SearchLoad Options
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled
Name: Tab Mix Plus
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{dc572301-7619-498c-a57d-39143191b318}.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Thème par défaut theme
Location:
/usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled
Name: UAControl
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled
Name: Universal Edit Button Auto-Discovery
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/[email protected]
Status: enabled
Name: Video DownloadHelper
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}.xpi
Status: user-disabled
Name: Web Developer
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{c45c406e-ab73-11d8-be73-000a95be3b12}.xpi
Status: user-disabled
Name: Y U no validate
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{20d36f97-15da-47ed-9f0a-13cbe85bdc84}.xpi
Status: enabled
-- Plugins information
Name: IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.6.2pre (1.6.1-4))
Location: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
Package: icedtea-7-plugin:amd64
Status: enabled
Name: Shockwave Flash (11.2.202.559)
Location: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
Status: enabled
-- Addons package information
ii icedtea-7-plug 1.6.1-4 amd64 web browser plugin based on OpenJ
ii iceweasel 43.0.4-1 amd64 Web browser based on Firefox
ii iceweasel-l10n 1:43.0.4-1 all French language package for Icewe
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to fr_FR.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 4.7
ii fontconfig 2.11.0-6.3
ii libasound2 1.0.29-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.18.0-1
ii libc6 2.21-7
ii libcairo2 1.14.6-1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.6-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.106-1
ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.21-stable-2+b1
ii libffi6 3.2.1-4
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3
ii libfreetype6 2.6.1-0.1
ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-7
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.32.3-1.2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.2-3
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.29-1
ii libhunspell-1.3-0 1.3.3-3+b2
ii libnspr4 2:4.11-1
ii libnss3 2:3.21-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.38.1-1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.10.2-1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4
ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-7
ii libvpx3 1.5.0-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-1
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.9-2
ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1
ii procps 2:3.3.11-3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
Versions of packages iceweasel recommends:
ii gstreamer1.0-libav 1.6.3-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.6.3-1
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii fonts-lmodern 2.004.5-1
ii fonts-stix [otf-stix] 1.1.1-4
ii libcanberra0 0.30-2.1
ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.5-3.1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.13.2+dfsg-4
pn mozplugger <none>
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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