Re: [orca-list] more than one blank space are not recognized in thunderbird

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

When reproducing this problem, does it matter whether you are composing 
messages in plain text format or HTML format?

Will

Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> Yes I find that too, however I didn't thing it was a bug, I thought it 
> was related to the characters thunderbird uses when there are multiple 
> spaces. In fact I have just confirmed what thunderbird uses by looking 
> at the source for your message and I find the first two spaces in your 
> example are inserted as non-breaking spaces (html character  ). Now 
> should orca announce those, if so add such a bug/request for it.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On -10/01/37 20:59, Paul Hunt wrote:
> > Confirmed.
> >
> > In fact I didn't even need to create a new message.  I got that 
> > problem when reviewing your message below.  the first two spaces 
> > inbetween the words are not spoken (nothing is), only the third space 
> > is spoken.
> >
> > I have confirmed that this problem occurs when composing too.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
> > On 13/08/09 11:15, jose vilmar estacio de souza wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > Probably this is related to thunderbird but I decided to report so 
> > > that someone can confirm.
> > >
> > > To reproduce try the following:
> > >
> > > 1. Create a new message using thunderbird.
> > >
> > > 2. In the body of the message type the following text:
> > > "This   is   a   test"
> > > Without the quotations.
> > > You must type 3 (three) blanks between each word.
> > >
> > > 3. Try to review the text using the left and right keys.
> > >
> > > Note that some spaces are not announced.
> > > Thanks.
>
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