Bug#660067: iceweasel copy and paste problem from xclip

[Dale Harris]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 10.0.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I often use xclip to enter standard input (ASCII text) into a copy
buffer which then I can paste into other applications like iceweasel.
I've never had a problem with this until today.  I can copy input to
xclip, either use the primary copy buffer in X, or specify the clipboard
(via the -selection switch in xclip).  If the copied text has a couple
special characters in it, seems to cause firefox to switch over to UTF-8
when I try to paste the contains into a text window, so I end up seeing
a lot of Chinese.  If I remove the spurious special character, it will
paste in good old fashion ASCII.  This is not behavior I see from going
from xclip to lowriter, it stayed in ASCII, so this is why I think it is
a problem with iceweasel.  I tried changing my default locale and
starting iceweasel in safe mode, but I had similar results.   Why would
one special character cause it to switch to, I assume, UTF-8 or an
extended character set?  


-- Package-specific info:


-- Addons package information

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils         4.2.1
ii  fontconfig          2.8.0-3.1
ii  libc6               2.13-26
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.24.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.30.2-6
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.9-2
ii  libnspr4-0d         4.9~beta5-2
ii  libstdc++6          4.6.2-14
ii  procps              1:3.3.2-3
ii  xulrunner-10.0      10.0.1-1

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2    1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii  mozplugger          <none>
ii  ttf-lyx             2.0.2-1
ii  ttf-mathematica4.1  <none>
ii  xfonts-mathml       4

Versions of packages xulrunner-10.0 depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.25-2
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.2.0-2
ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.6-1
ii  libc6                     2.13-26
ii  libcairo2                 1.10.2-6.2
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.4.18-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.98-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.17-stable-1
ii  libfontconfig1            2.8.0-3.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.8-1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.6.2-14
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.24.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.30.2-6
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.9-2
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.2-4
ii  libjpeg8                  8d-1
ii  libmozjs10d               10.0.1-1
ii  libnotify4                0.7.4-1
ii  libnspr4-0d               4.9~beta5-2
ii  libnss3-1d                3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.29.4-2
ii  libpixman-1-0             0.24.4-1
ii  libreadline6              6.2-8
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.10-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.6.2-14
ii  libvpx1                   1.0.0-1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.4.4-4
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.0-3
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.6-2
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.1-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.6.dfsg-1

Versions of packages xulrunner-10.0 suggests:
ii  libcanberra0  0.28-3
ii  libgnomeui-0  2.24.5-2

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-- 
Dale Harris                          dale at med.cornell.edu
Unix System Administrator            dah2016 at med.cornell.edu
Information Technologies & Services  (212) 746-6841
Weill Cornell Medical College        575 Lexington, 3rd Floor, NY, NY 10022