[Pidgin] #8190: Pidgin does not handle <p> tags (pasting from many webpages)

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#8190: Pidgin does not handle <p> tags (pasting from many webpages)
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 Reporter:  Lothsahn                                     |     Owner:  lschiere
     Type:  defect                                       |    Status:  new     
Component:  unclassified                                 |   Version:  2.5.4   
 Keywords:  copy paste carriage return newline new line  |  
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 When performing a copy/paste from a variety of places (thunderbird,
 wikipedia articles on firefox, etc), Pidgin does not preserve the carriage
 returns.
 [[BR]][[BR]]
 Steps to reproduce:[[BR]]
 1) (Use Firefox) Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-wing_aircraft
 [[BR]]
 2) Copy the entire paragraph under Overview[[BR]]
 3) Paste into pidgin[[BR]]
 4) Notice all carriage returns are lost.[[BR]]
 [[BR]][[BR]]
 The root cause is likely this:[[BR]]
 "the HTML support in Pidgin is very minimal.
 The text in this case is embedded in paragraph (<p>...</p>) tags and
 pidgin doesn't know how to handle these, so it ignores them."

 Workaround:
 1) Right click and "Paste as Plain Text"
 2) Paste and re-copy from a plain text editor, like Notepad

 Because so many applications have carriage returns this way, I think
 Pidgin should support this.  It's common to try to paste webpages from
 friends.

 This issue is reproduced on Pidgin 2.5.4 for Windows.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8190>
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