Frequently, when I copy/paste text into the message field when creating a 
ticket or adding to an existing ticket, the text appears ok when I paste it, 
but is garbled when I view the ticket after saving the updates.  It also adds 
line breaks, extra spaces, and cuts off part of the message.  There does not 
appear to be consistency in terms of when this happens (it's not specific to a 
particular browser or OS).  It seems that it may be adding html code to the 
text?  I'm not sure what's happening.  I've also tried pasting the text into 
notepad to remove all formatting before pasting it into the ticket but that 
doesn't always help.

One thing I can say is that this only occurs if using the "reply" or "comment" 
option.  It is always ok when adding text via "resolve".

I have a screen shot at http://people.haverford.edu/jscales/rtexample.jpg  that 
exemplifies some of what I'm experiencing.  In this example, the first two 
attempts to copy and paste the email from a user resulted in cut off text.  The 
third time it displays fine and that was when I pasted it into the ticket via 
"resolve".  The final comment in the ticket was typed in directly as a comment. 
 I typed only "Sarah and Vasantha are working on this" and RT added the extra 
text (which is displayed partly as boxes on my browser but shows as RT text in 
this screenshot.)

This is happening a lot (about 25% of tickets have at least something wrong 
with the text) and it is not something that we can work around because it often 
results in lost comments/text.  We just launched RT for our help desk and this 
is very problematic.  I'm desperate to fix this before the school year starts 
again at the end of this month.  Can anyone help?  Any ideas?  Has this been 
seen before?

I'm using RT 3.8.2

Jennifer Scales
Help Desk/Public Lab Coordinator
College Information Resources
Haverford College
[email protected]
(610) 896-1373

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