In Firefox, the code from the documentation is copied with Non-breaking spaces (nbsp)

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In Firefox, the code from the documentation is copied with Non-breaking spaces (nbsp)

deevroman opened this issue 2 years ago · 8 comments

Starting with Firefox 103, it now does not replace nbsp with a normal space. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359303

Try copying some code from the documentation and pasting it into a text file. (for example from here https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php)

Answer 1 · 2022-10-31T12:38:34.000Z

I cannot reproduce this with Firefox 106 on Windows (I get spaces after copy&paste). Can anybody else reproduce this issue?

Answer 2 · 2022-10-31T12:50:21.000Z

Hm. To clarify: I use mac OS 11.6.8 and Firefox 107.0b7

I also checked the stable version 106 -- everything is fine there, and 108.0a1 here the bug is reproduced.

Maybe this is a beta version problem, but a new release is coming soon and it looks like it will get into the stable version.

Answer 3 · 2022-10-31T13:16:30.000Z

Ah, yeah. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359303#c145 mentions 4 cases, and the last two have been moved into https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1769534, and that fix targets Firefox 107.

I think we should follow suite and get rid of the non-breaking spaces, and instead prevent space-folding by using white-space: pre or such. Anyhow, this is actually a PhD doc issue.

Answer 4 · 2022-12-23T07:37:26.000Z

I think we should follow suite and get rid of the non-breaking spaces, and instead prevent space-folding by using white-space: pre or such.

Agreed. I'm a Firefox user as well and encountered this issue yesterday.

Anyhow, this is actually a PhD doc issue.

Should the discussion be moved to PhD doc or continue here? I'm seeing no one here has been assigned to this issue.

Answer 5 · 2022-12-23T07:54:18.000Z

Should the discussion be moved to PhD doc or continue here?

"Here" is phd.

Answer 6 · 2022-12-23T08:00:09.000Z

Should the discussion be moved to PhD doc or continue here?

"Here" is phd.

I see. Didn't realize "phd" is the same as "PhD doc".

Answer 7 · 2022-12-23T13:58:26.000Z

I'm seeing no one here has been assigned to this issue.

Given that this is an open-source project, you could have submitted a pull request. :)

Answer 8 · 2022-12-23T14:04:32.000Z

I'm seeing no one here has been assigned to this issue.

Given that this is an open-source project, you could have submitted a pull request. :)

I see. Didn't know this issue can be solved that way. Besides, submitting a pull request is current beyond my ability. Actually, I practiced and learned that many years ago by using GitHub Desktop but have long since forgotten the steps. But thanks for letting me know a solution.