Re: Evolution Fails to Properly Render Certain HTML Markup

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When you were telling me about that before, I could not understand what
you were talking about.  I didn't know that you received Today in the
word by email.  I don't get mine that way. I have always used Firefox.





On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 07:01 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> I have mentioned this before in a separate thread, but now have more
> information. Here's the issue:
> 
> Evolution in F11 is not properly rendering certain HTML characters
> correctly. I have a daily e-mail I receive where this is clearly
> highlighted (from Moody's Bible Institute).A snippet of the source HTML
> in the e-mail for today looks like this:
> 
>         Some people tend to like their spirituality quick and easy.
>         After all, there’s work to do, places to go, people to see.
>         Holiness? I’ll listen to a podcast while I exercise.
>         Servanthood? Our Sunday school class is doing a DVD series on
>         that. Bible study? <i>The One-Minute Bible</i>&#151;and yes,
>         there really is such a thing&#151;is a lifesaver. Patience?
>         Who&#146;s got time for that? 
> 
> Evolution does not properly render certain characters in this HTML
> message. It displays the above source as follows:
> 
>         Some people tend to like their spirituality quick and easy.
>         After all, there’s work to do, places to go, people to see.
>         Holiness? I’ll listen to a podcast while I exercise.
>         Servanthood? Our Sunday school class is doing a DVD series on
>         that. Bible study? The One-Minute Bible—and yes, there really is
>         such a thing—is a lifesaver. Patience? Who’s got time for that?
>         
> So, as a test, I took the entire source HTML from today's e-mail
> message, saved it off as a separate file, and then tried loading it into
> Firefox. Firefox renders it properly! It looks like this:
> 
>         Some people tend to like their spirituality quick and easy.
>         After all, there’s work to do, places to go, people to see.
>         Holiness? I’ll listen to a podcast while I exercise.
>         Servanthood? Our Sunday school class is doing a DVD series on
>         that. Bible study? The One-Minute Bible—and yes, there really is
>         such a thing—is a lifesaver. Patience? Who’s got time for that?
> 
> Each of the above examples were pasted directly from their corresponding
> applications. I believe this is clearly a bug in Evolution, and it is
> one that showed up in F11. Evolution in F10 _does not_ have this
> problem.
> 
> I've opened this problem up as Bugzilla number 503500 filed against
> rawhide. You can get the HTML file I used to test this as an attachment
> from there.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> --
> =============================
> "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?'
> I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
> 
> -- George Bernard Shaw
> 
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Lawrence E. Graves <lgraves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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