[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 14862] contentEditable inserts non standard spaces

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14862


mrowe at apple.com changed:

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------- Comment #4 from mrowe at apple.com  2007-08-03 13:48 PDT -------
The character that is inserted is a non-breaking space, just as Alexey
mentioned.  In the case of the URL you provided, the character on the second
line between the quotation marks is a UTF-8 encoded non-breaking space.  If you
change Safari's encoding via View -> Text Encodings, you will notice that it
renders as expected.  It appears as an unexpected A-like character as it is
being interpreted according to the default encoding of the browser, which is
used when the server does not specify which encoding *should* be used.

In Alexey's example entering "A  B" (that is, A followed by two spaces then a
B) is displayed in the alert as "A  B (A%20%A0B)". Plugging this into a short
code snippet to display the names of the characters that compose that string
reveals:
>>> string = "A\x20\xA0B"
>>> map(unicodedata.name, string.decode('latin1'))
['LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A', 'SPACE', 'NO-BREAK SPACE', 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B']

I think this bug should probably be closed as everything appears to be working
as expected.


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