Hello,
Same behavior here, and it annoys other people's irc client on the chan
when e.g. changing the topic, since in that case I copy/paste the
original one and modify it, but don't notice that there is a BOM, which
may appear as garbage for other people.
This only happens when pasting from pidg
Ari Pollak wrote:
> Where are you copying the text from?
Either from the text input area or from the received message window.
> How can you tell if a BOM is there?
I found three ways:
1) By cursor movement: hit home to go to the beginning of the line,
then note that pressing right once does
Where are you copying the text from? How can you tell if a BOM is there?
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Package: pidgin
Version: 2.4.1-1
Severity: normal
Copying text from pidgin and pasting it back into pidgin results in a
BOM added to the beginning. In addition to putting garbage into sent
messages if not noticed, this also prevents interpretation of slash
commands such as /msg.
- Josh Triplett
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