Bug 26774

Summary:

window.getSelection().toString() breaks soft hyphen 

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Mathias Nater <mnater>

Component:

Text

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

Severity:

Normal

CC:

ap, mitz, simon

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

Mac

OS:

OS X 10.5

Attachments:

Description	Flags
testcase	none

Mathias Nater

Reported 2009-06-27 15:02:22 PDT

Soft hyphens in selected text are replaced by space (with charCode 32 ?!?) when the selection is converted to a string in javascript: var t1 = window.getSelection().toString();

Attachments
testcase (881 bytes, text/html) 2009-06-27 15:06 PDT, Mathias Nater	no flags	Details
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Mathias Nater

Comment 1 2009-06-27 15:06:14 PDT

Created attachment 31979 [details] testcase The atachment shows the problem: Select the first line, then click go. An alert will show up. t1 is the selected text, t2 is the text retrieved by document.getElementById(...). Results differ

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 2 2009-06-30 02:33:30 PDT

See also: bug 11154 (most likely, it has the same underlying reason).

mitz

Comment 3 2010-09-28 12:41:13 PDT

This was fixed along with Bug 11154.

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