32420 - (c) != © ?

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Networking, defect, P4)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

© = copyright sign

-- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2000-03-18 20:48 in bug #32412 --
> Are you sure it's ok to replace (c) with © ?
> http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html says © is legally
> recognized but (c) is not.  You don't want a sender to think everyone's going
> to see a © when most will see a (c).

Cool! :-(

My standpoint would be, that "(c)" is a representation of ©, where this
glyph is not available, just like GFX renders "tm", if ™ (the trademark
sign) is not available, like on Linux.

An alternative standpoint :-) would be, that "(c)" is an abbreviation of
"Copyright".

Comment 1

[Richard Zach]

Wait.  Ben, I think the autoconversion of ;-) etc into glyphs  is a neat thing,
but thousands of mathematicians, physicists, etc. will wring their hands when
they write things like "Let f be a function so that f(c) = 0" and get ©!

I know, there's going to be a pref, etc., but still.  Lots of cases where (c) is
not intended as ©, as in: "(a) ..., (b) ...., and (c) ..."

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Richard Zach,
Yes, you're right, this are cases, I didn't think of. Propably the best to
disable them.
BTW: If you want to look over the spec, see
<http://www.bucksch.org/1/projects/mozilla/16507>.

mscott,
can you please review/check in? tnx.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Attachment: Remove recognition of (c) and (r)

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

bad patch, a better one later.

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Attachment: Fix for bugs 32420, 24709, 29695 and 38888

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Attachment: Additional patch for bug 24703: layout/html/document/src/html.css

Comment 7

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

mscott, can you review and checkin for M16 please? The patches are just |cvs
diff -u [mozTXTToHTMLConv|html.css]| in the respective dirs.

Wait, I forgot a change for bug 31906. I'll submit a new patch for
mozTXTToHTMLConv soon.

Comment 8

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Attachment: Fix for bugs 32420, 24709, 29695, 38888, part of 31906 and other changes

Comment 9

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Attachment: Additional patch for bug 24703: layout/html/document/src/html.css

Comment 10

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

OK, I hope, that's it.

Comment 11

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

reviewed and checked in by mscott. Thanks!

Comment 12

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

ops

Comment 13

[benc]

qa to me.

Don't know why this is networking, but it's Tom's, so I'm working on it.

Created test document (see URL field).

Comment 14

[benc]

VERIFIED:
Mozilla 0.9 all plats.

Comment 15

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

> Don't know why this is networking

Because that's where the code lives.

Comment 16

[benc]

Wow, learn a new thing every day....