#5664 HIGH Update.: Copying formatted text out of Browse breaks Journal/clipboard interaction (was: Copying formatted text out of Browse causes weird behavior.)

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#5664: Copying formatted text out of Browse breaks Journal/clipboard interaction
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  Reporter:  legutierr        |       Owner:  erikos                           
      Type:  defect           |      Status:  new                              
  Priority:  high             |   Milestone:  Update.1                         
 Component:  browse-activity  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
Resolution:                   |    Keywords:                                   
  Verified:  0                |    Blocking:                                   
 Blockedby:                   |  
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Changes (by legutierr):

  * version:  Build 650 => Development build as of this date


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:5 tomeu]:
 > Well, this ticket is really about many different issues.
 >
 > The underlying problem is that having consistent clipboard support in an
 OS is hard because requires the cooperation of the different software
 components (and maintainers).
 >
 > I think each separate issue should be reported as a separate ticket and
 assigned to the relevant component.

 I wrote this ticket before I understood much about the system. And in
 fact, this bug does focus on two somewhat distinct issues, but they are
 highly coupled, and although the description could have been less verbose,
 I would not put them in separate reports:
  1) a particular bug in Browse or in the clipboard API relating to
 encoding [[br]]
  2) a the inconsistent behavior that results from this bug.

 The issue that this bug attempts to describe is that formatted text in
 Browse is apparently encoded differently than other types of text, and
 that such encoding breaks the Journal-clipboard interaction.  That's it;
 everything else described here are symptoms and side-effects of that bug
 (or at least that was my intent, sorry for the verbosity).

 It may be advisable to create new bug reports for the other issues that
 are hinted at here (specifically, the issue of inconsistency with regard
 to text-handling, which may have been improperly raised within the
 description of this bug, and which I put in bug #5753), but this bug is
 intended only to cover the encoding issue.

 BTW, I just verified that this bug remains in joyride-1492:

  1) copy formatted text out of this page [[br]]
  2) add the clipping to the journal [[br]]
  3) try to open that clipping out of the journal: nothing happens. [[br]]

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5664#comment:6>
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