#583232 konsole: Konsole copies tab characters as spaces

Package:
konsole
Source:
konsole
Description:
X terminal emulator
Submitter:
Ken Bloom
Date:
2011-08-01 16:43:32 UTC
Severity:
normal
#583232#5
Date:
2010-05-26 15:31:38 UTC
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Konsole copies tab characters as spaces. This makes pasting
tabularly-formatted data into OpenOffice difficult.

To reproduce:
echo -e "a\tb"

Copy the resulting output

run xxd, and paste the resulting output on the console (into xxd's
standard input)

[bloom@zuni CORPUS_huliu]$ echo -e "a\tb"
a       b
[bloom@zuni CORPUS_huliu]$ xxd
a       b
0000000: 6120 2020 2020 2020 620a                 a       b.

(I would hope to see xxd give the output
0000000: 6109 620a                                a.b.
)
#583232#10
Date:
2010-06-06 17:48:53 UTC
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Hello
This will not be fixed in Konsole
See this upstream bug for an explanation:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146146

Olivier
#583232#15
Date:
2010-06-06 18:01:54 UTC
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reopen 583232
thanks

I'm reopening because they're wrong. The test works just fine in rxvt,
demonstrating that the problem isn't from somewhere lower in the
software stack. They should be able to fix it.

I'll submit a new upstream bug to let them know.