Re: Strange Copy/Paste behavior in KMail 1.13.5/Kontact 4.4.8

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Hello Everyone,
I'm still having this problem.  If anyone would try the steps described below 
and get back to me with the results, I would greatly appreciate it :)

Steven P. Ulrick

> Hello Everyone,
> I am using KMail 1.13.5 from within Kontact 4.4.8.  Also, I am running Fedora 
13 
> and KDE 4.5.4.  All of this is fully updated.
> 
> I don't know when this problem started, but when I copy something like this 
from 
> any email in KMail:
> No.  Why do you need the "full-install" DVD?
> 
> and paste it into any text editor, it comes out like this:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-
> strict.dtd">
> <body>No.&nbsp;&nbsp;Why do you need the "full-install" DVD?</body>
> 
> If I want to copy and paste a tracking number for an item that I purchased 
> online, it looks like this when I paste it:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-
> strict.dtd">
> <body>9101128882300487354725</body>
> 
> In the above example, this is the procedure I followed:
> 1. Using my mouse, I select "9101128882300487354725" in the desired email.
> 2. Right click the mouse, and then select "Copy"
> 3. Then, I either do "Ctrl V" or "Right Click | Paste"
> 4. The result is always the same.  I get the text that I selected, plus a 
whole 
> lot HTML markup...
> 
> I have KMail set to compose and send emails in text only.
> 
> In my experiments so far, this only occurs when I copy FROM KMail.  If I copy 
> from any other application, and paste INTO KMail, it pastes correctly.  Also, 
> when I select and then copy "9101128882300487354725" FROM KMAIL, and then 
check 
> my clipboard, it shows up in the undesired format:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-
> strict.dtd">
> <body>9101128882300487354725</body>
> 
> As far as I know, I didn't change anything to cause this problem to occur.  I 
do 
> know that up until a few weeks ago, on this same system, if (from within 
KMail) 
> I selected and copied something like "9101128882300487354725" and then pasted 
> the result into any application, I would get this:
> "9101128882300487354725"
> 
> That is how it has always worked for me, and that is NOT how it's working for 
me 
> now :(
> 
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
> Steven P. Ulrick
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