Re: SM 2.0 URL escape character auto conversion
A trick that will work in some applications [maybe not yours] is to place a left arrow in front of the URL and a right arrow at the end no spaces]. That prevents some programs from screwing it up. Luck, James . . Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:27:39 -0700 From: Useru...@user.com To:support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org Subject: Re: SM 2.0 URL escape character auto conversion Message-ID:lbudnqmmc6ujpxbxnz2dnuvz_hji4...@mozilla.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed NoOp wrote: On 10/30/2009 06:01 PM, User wrote: I recently copied a URL which contained spaces, from the URL field of the SM 2.0 browser, into a SM 2.0 mail composition window, and then saved the e-mail as a draft. Upon reviewing the saved draft (without re-opening it for editing), I noticed that clickable portion of the URL with spaces that I pasted into the e-mail was truncated at the first space character encountered. Obviously, this is not surprising. However, I seem to recall that in SM 1.X versions, when pasting a URL with spaces or other special characters into the SM mail composition window, an automatic conversation process would take place whereby the pasted URL in the mail composition would then contain the necessary escape characters (e.g. for the space character, it would become %20 in the e-mail). Can someone confirm whether the automatic escape character conversion DOES INDEED take place in SM 1.X versions but now does NOT take place in SM 2.0's mail composition window or when the e-mail is saved / sent? In this case, I had to re-edit the saved draft to manually replace the space characters in the pasted URL into their correct escape character equivalents. Thanks for any input / confirmation on the above. Sure, here is an easy, reliable example[1]: SM 2.0: https://help.ubuntu.com/community click on #5 in 'Contents: Getting to know and work with your system You'll see that in SM2.0 the URL ends up as: https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting to know and work with your system In 1.1.18 the same URL ends up as: https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting%20to%20know%20and%20work%20with%20your%20system [1] Sorry for not finding an mozilla example, but this is one that I know from heart:-) Thanks for confirming that. I wasn't sure from using SM 1.X all these years, but I did remember that I have NEVER had to manually insert escape characters when pasting ANY URL into the mail composition window. I guess this is yet another item on the to-do list for Seamonkey developers. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM 2.0 URL escape character auto conversion
On 10/31/2009 08:17 PM, User wrote: Thanks very much. Look forward to the bug report URL here if you don't mind posting it later. NoOp wrote: ... Please bottom post here :-) I'll be happy to file it in the morning; I tend to stay away from bugzilla in the evening :-) Well I avoid filing at night for good reason... :-) Bugzilla tends to make my eyes glaze over. So today in an effort to see if there is a similar bug filed I checked: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specificorder=relevance+descbug_status=__open__content=%2520 and found one that may be relevant: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475896 [When accessing urls in firefox with %20, it is replaced with a whitespace. Breaks other software if you try to copy-paste part of the url out of firefox] quote Many applications find the end of urls based on a whitespace (or maybe a word boundary) character at the end. If I copy a url from firefox and paste it into something else it requires me to manually replace the spaces with %20. This is slightly more than annoying. /quote Given that SM 2.0 uses a lot of code from Fx, this might be a good place to start add comments. I'll do that first then if no response I'll open a new SeaMonkey only bug report. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM 2.0 URL escape character auto conversion
NoOp wrote: On 10/31/2009 08:17 PM, User wrote: Thanks very much. Look forward to the bug report URL here if you don't mind posting it later. NoOp wrote: ... Please bottom post here :-) I'll be happy to file it in the morning; I tend to stay away from bugzilla in the evening :-) Well I avoid filing at night for good reason... :-) Bugzilla tends to make my eyes glaze over. So today in an effort to see if there is a similar bug filed I checked: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specificorder=relevance+descbug_status=__open__content=%2520 and found one that may be relevant: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475896 [When accessing urls in firefox with %20, it is replaced with a whitespace. Breaks other software if you try to copy-paste part of the url out of firefox] quote Many applications find the end of urls based on a whitespace (or maybe a word boundary) character at the end. If I copy a url from firefox and paste it into something else it requires me to manually replace the spaces with %20. This is slightly more than annoying. /quote Given that SM 2.0 uses a lot of code from Fx, this might be a good place to start add comments. I'll do that first then if no response I'll open a new SeaMonkey only bug report. That's a good start, though the problem in SM is that when a URL in the browser has space characters, pasting the URL it into the mail composition window does not result in auto conversion of the space characters into its escape code equivalent, so I'm not sure if this means this is an issue in mail/news or SM or the browser. In SM 1.X the mail composition window would automatically convert it to escape code. This is going to be a big issue especially with any character that requires automatic escape code conversion, not just space characters only. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM 2.0 URL escape character auto conversion
On 11/01/2009 03:16 PM, User wrote: NoOp wrote: ... Given that SM 2.0 uses a lot of code from Fx, this might be a good place to start add comments. I'll do that first then if no response I'll open a new SeaMonkey only bug report. That's a good start, though the problem in SM is that when a URL in the browser has space characters, pasting the URL it into the mail composition window does not result in auto conversion of the space characters into its escape code equivalent, so I'm not sure if this means this is an issue in mail/news or SM or the browser. In SM 1.X the mail composition window would automatically convert it to escape code. This is going to be a big issue especially with any character that requires automatic escape code conversion, not just space characters only. Agreed. But let's give my comments to this bug a day if no action/added-comments I'll file a new SeaMonkey only bug. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM 2.0 URL escape character auto conversion
On 10/30/2009 07:27 PM, User wrote: NoOp wrote: ... Sure, here is an easy, reliable example[1]: SM 2.0: https://help.ubuntu.com/community click on #5 in 'Contents: Getting to know and work with your system You'll see that in SM2.0 the URL ends up as: https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting to know and work with your system In 1.1.18 the same URL ends up as: https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting%20to%20know%20and%20work%20with%20your%20system [1] Sorry for not finding an mozilla example, but this is one that I know from heart :-) Thanks for confirming that. I wasn't sure from using SM 1.X all these years, but I did remember that I have NEVER had to manually insert escape characters when pasting ANY URL into the mail composition window. I guess this is yet another item on the to-do list for Seamonkey developers. Can you file a bug report regarding this? If so, post back with the report url I'll be happy to add my confirmation to the report. Thanks. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM 2.0 URL escape character auto conversion
NoOp wrote: On 10/30/2009 07:27 PM, User wrote: NoOp wrote: ... Sure, here is an easy, reliable example[1]: SM 2.0: https://help.ubuntu.com/community click on #5 in 'Contents: Getting to know and work with your system You'll see that in SM2.0 the URL ends up as: https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting to know and work with your system In 1.1.18 the same URL ends up as: https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting%20to%20know%20and%20work%20with%20your%20system [1] Sorry for not finding an mozilla example, but this is one that I know from heart :-) Thanks for confirming that. I wasn't sure from using SM 1.X all these years, but I did remember that I have NEVER had to manually insert escape characters when pasting ANY URL into the mail composition window. I guess this is yet another item on the to-do list for Seamonkey developers. Can you file a bug report regarding this? If so, post back with the report url I'll be happy to add my confirmation to the report. Thanks. I'm a power user, but I don't normally use the Bugzilla system to file bug reports. Have read up on the filing guidelines, but seem a bit complicated / daunting and don't want to end up filing it incorrectly or in duplicate since Bugzilla is an area I don't normally use. If you know how to file it, I'd be happy to learn from example. Thanks. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM 2.0 URL escape character auto conversion
On 10/31/2009 07:20 PM, User wrote: NoOp wrote: On 10/30/2009 07:27 PM, User wrote: NoOp wrote: ... Sure, here is an easy, reliable example[1]: SM 2.0: https://help.ubuntu.com/community click on #5 in 'Contents: Getting to know and work with your system You'll see that in SM2.0 the URL ends up as: https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting to know and work with your system In 1.1.18 the same URL ends up as: https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting%20to%20know%20and%20work%20with%20your%20system [1] Sorry for not finding an mozilla example, but this is one that I know from heart :-) Thanks for confirming that. I wasn't sure from using SM 1.X all these years, but I did remember that I have NEVER had to manually insert escape characters when pasting ANY URL into the mail composition window. I guess this is yet another item on the to-do list for Seamonkey developers. Can you file a bug report regarding this? If so, post back with the report url I'll be happy to add my confirmation to the report. Thanks. I'm a power user, but I don't normally use the Bugzilla system to file bug reports. Have read up on the filing guidelines, but seem a bit complicated / daunting and don't want to end up filing it incorrectly or in duplicate since Bugzilla is an area I don't normally use. If you know how to file it, I'd be happy to learn from example. Thanks. I'll be happy to file it in the morning; I tend to stay away from bugzilla in the evening :-) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM 2.0 URL escape character auto conversion
Thanks very much. Look forward to the bug report URL here if you don't mind posting it later. NoOp wrote: On 10/31/2009 07:20 PM, User wrote: NoOp wrote: On 10/30/2009 07:27 PM, User wrote: NoOp wrote: ... Sure, here is an easy, reliable example[1]: SM 2.0: https://help.ubuntu.com/community click on #5 in 'Contents: Getting to know and work with your system You'll see that in SM2.0 the URL ends up as: https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting to know and work with your system In 1.1.18 the same URL ends up as: https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting%20to%20know%20and%20work%20with%20your%20system [1] Sorry for not finding an mozilla example, but this is one that I know from heart :-) Thanks for confirming that. I wasn't sure from using SM 1.X all these years, but I did remember that I have NEVER had to manually insert escape characters when pasting ANY URL into the mail composition window. I guess this is yet another item on the to-do list for Seamonkey developers. Can you file a bug report regarding this? If so, post back with the report url I'll be happy to add my confirmation to the report. Thanks. I'm a power user, but I don't normally use the Bugzilla system to file bug reports. Have read up on the filing guidelines, but seem a bit complicated / daunting and don't want to end up filing it incorrectly or in duplicate since Bugzilla is an area I don't normally use. If you know how to file it, I'd be happy to learn from example. Thanks. I'll be happy to file it in the morning; I tend to stay away from bugzilla in the evening :-) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
SM 2.0 URL escape character auto conversion
I recently copied a URL which contained spaces, from the URL field of the SM 2.0 browser, into a SM 2.0 mail composition window, and then saved the e-mail as a draft. Upon reviewing the saved draft (without re-opening it for editing), I noticed that clickable portion of the URL with spaces that I pasted into the e-mail was truncated at the first space character encountered. Obviously, this is not surprising. However, I seem to recall that in SM 1.X versions, when pasting a URL with spaces or other special characters into the SM mail composition window, an automatic conversation process would take place whereby the pasted URL in the mail composition would then contain the necessary escape characters (e.g. for the space character, it would become %20 in the e-mail). Can someone confirm whether the automatic escape character conversion DOES INDEED take place in SM 1.X versions but now does NOT take place in SM 2.0's mail composition window or when the e-mail is saved / sent? In this case, I had to re-edit the saved draft to manually replace the space characters in the pasted URL into their correct escape character equivalents. Thanks for any input / confirmation on the above. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM 2.0 URL escape character auto conversion
On 10/30/2009 06:01 PM, User wrote: I recently copied a URL which contained spaces, from the URL field of the SM 2.0 browser, into a SM 2.0 mail composition window, and then saved the e-mail as a draft. Upon reviewing the saved draft (without re-opening it for editing), I noticed that clickable portion of the URL with spaces that I pasted into the e-mail was truncated at the first space character encountered. Obviously, this is not surprising. However, I seem to recall that in SM 1.X versions, when pasting a URL with spaces or other special characters into the SM mail composition window, an automatic conversation process would take place whereby the pasted URL in the mail composition would then contain the necessary escape characters (e.g. for the space character, it would become %20 in the e-mail). Can someone confirm whether the automatic escape character conversion DOES INDEED take place in SM 1.X versions but now does NOT take place in SM 2.0's mail composition window or when the e-mail is saved / sent? In this case, I had to re-edit the saved draft to manually replace the space characters in the pasted URL into their correct escape character equivalents. Thanks for any input / confirmation on the above. Sure, here is an easy, reliable example[1]: SM 2.0: https://help.ubuntu.com/community click on #5 in 'Contents: Getting to know and work with your system You'll see that in SM2.0 the URL ends up as: https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting to know and work with your system In 1.1.18 the same URL ends up as: https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting%20to%20know%20and%20work%20with%20your%20system [1] Sorry for not finding an mozilla example, but this is one that I know from heart :-) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM 2.0 URL escape character auto conversion
NoOp wrote: On 10/30/2009 06:01 PM, User wrote: I recently copied a URL which contained spaces, from the URL field of the SM 2.0 browser, into a SM 2.0 mail composition window, and then saved the e-mail as a draft. Upon reviewing the saved draft (without re-opening it for editing), I noticed that clickable portion of the URL with spaces that I pasted into the e-mail was truncated at the first space character encountered. Obviously, this is not surprising. However, I seem to recall that in SM 1.X versions, when pasting a URL with spaces or other special characters into the SM mail composition window, an automatic conversation process would take place whereby the pasted URL in the mail composition would then contain the necessary escape characters (e.g. for the space character, it would become %20 in the e-mail). Can someone confirm whether the automatic escape character conversion DOES INDEED take place in SM 1.X versions but now does NOT take place in SM 2.0's mail composition window or when the e-mail is saved / sent? In this case, I had to re-edit the saved draft to manually replace the space characters in the pasted URL into their correct escape character equivalents. Thanks for any input / confirmation on the above. Sure, here is an easy, reliable example[1]: SM 2.0: https://help.ubuntu.com/community click on #5 in 'Contents: Getting to know and work with your system You'll see that in SM2.0 the URL ends up as: https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting to know and work with your system In 1.1.18 the same URL ends up as: https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting%20to%20know%20and%20work%20with%20your%20system [1] Sorry for not finding an mozilla example, but this is one that I know from heart :-) Thanks for confirming that. I wasn't sure from using SM 1.X all these years, but I did remember that I have NEVER had to manually insert escape characters when pasting ANY URL into the mail composition window. I guess this is yet another item on the to-do list for Seamonkey developers. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
