[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         
Milestone:                                               |    Component:  unclassified
  Version:  2.5.4                                        |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:  copy paste carriage return newline new line  |  
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Description changed by Lothsahn:

Old description:

> 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.

New description:

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

 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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