Re: [orca-list] Copy flat review and append flatreview to clipboard does not take multibyte characters into account

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Max.

Is this with the latest (as in just now) master? Or before I committed
what I hope to be the fix for this problem?

--joanie

On 02/17/2016 09:47 AM, Max wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I certify that all these errors are present.
>
> There is another error that may have to "orca" is not bound.
>
> This error can be seen in the following situation:
>
> 1. Open the "gedit";
>
> 2. By switching to Ukrainian or Russian keyboard layout, write the word:
>
> Привет!
>
> Note that the word is made up of six letters; And the last character -
> it's an exclamation point. I do not know, it is important or not, so
> just in case - I write about the exclamation mark;
>
> 3. Using a flat review keys to move between words, find a word that I
> wrote;
>
> 4. Copying a word, using the flat review;
>
> 5. After inserting what I copied, I get the following result:
>
> \u041f\u0440\u0438\Uffffffff
>
> The same is observed in netolko "gedit", but also in other applications,
> including the terminal.
>
> Just do not send me a bug-tracker to the error. For this, my English is
> no longer enough :).
>
> 17.02.2016 10:31, Peter Vágner пишет:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is difficult to explain, but there are various issues when trying
> > to copy other than english texts from flat review.
> >
> > Steps to reproduce
> > 1) Open gedit
> > 2) Paste a bunch of random multibyte characters inside an empty document
> > e.g.
> > +ľščťžýáíé=
> > 3) Notice the string above is 11 characters long and ends in = [equals]
> > character.
> > 4) Explore the gedit window using the flat review also trying to copy
> > the line where this string has been pasted using copy flat review
> > command.
> > 5) Make a new empty line and try to paste what you just have tried to
> > copy in the previous step.
> > 6) Notice the string you have just pasted is different from the one you
> > have copied. It's only 6 characters long
> > +ľščťž
> >
> >
> > Also there appear to be more complicated issue I can't explain how it
> > might happen.
> >
> > Paste a few following lines into the gedit:
> > detský tábor
> > jazykový tábor
> > jazykový pobyt
> >
> > Try to copy the first and append second and third line via flat review.
> > When pasting you will get...
> > detský tábo
> > jazykový tá
> > jazykový p
> >
> > In this case the shortened pasted lines do not even corespond with
> > string length minus number of the multibyte characters, so this must be
> > something different not in order.
> >
> > The same thing can be reproduced when copying from any flat review e.g.
> > terminal as well.
> >
> > It's very rare I need to copy other than english texts this way, so I
> > can't really say whether this is recent or not.
> > I might be able to test some earlier versions later to at least find out
> > whether this is recent.
> >
> > Thanks and greetings
> >
> > Peter
> >
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