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Bug 12673

Summary: [hovering] Unresolved Escape Sequences of Java-Doc Comments
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Mark Vollmann <mark.vollmann>
Component: TextAssignee: JDT-Text-Inbox <jdt-text-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: bogofilter+eclipse.org, danny, hudsonr, mattes+freedb
Version: 2.0Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: 3.2 M6   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Mark Vollmann CLA 2002-04-03 05:14:07 EST 
if i use special characters like ä, ö, ü i have to escape them in java-doc like 
this: &auml;, &ouml; and &uuml;

When the mouse is hovering above a class/method and displays the java-doc-
comment this escape-sequence is not resolved.
Comment 1 Erich Gamma CLA 2002-04-09 12:02:45 EDT 
we don't have a full blown HTML renderer - not for 2.0 unless we get external 
help.
Comment 2 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2002-07-23 12:13:12 EDT 
Reopening for 2.1 consideration
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2004-09-20 04:31:17 EDT 
*** Bug 37481 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 WarEagle CLA 2005-10-20 08:05:01 EDT 
Hi,

this bug seems to be still active.
When using the tooltip, on must html-specialchars the ";" is cut off and no
parsing is made. This happens an nearly every html-char I tried, so not only the
german ones.
But using the view "JavaDoc" all signs are parsed. 
Also when using F2 to enter the focus of the tooltip, the parsing is made.

Wouldn't it be easy to use the same method as it is used in focus-mode?

Greetings

Torsten

p.s. Isn't the correct servity fot this "trivial" instead of enchancement? it's
a bug, because there IS some parsing, otherwise the ";" wouldn't have been cut off.
Comment 5 Dani Megert CLA 2005-11-07 11:25:51 EST 
This will go away once we use the Browser widget for hovering.
Comment 6 Dani Megert CLA 2005-12-20 05:07:05 EST 
*** Bug 121426 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Dani Megert CLA 2005-12-20 05:07:11 EST 
*** Bug 22451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Danny Yates CLA 2005-12-20 05:27:01 EST 
(In reply to comment #5)
> This will go away once we use the Browser widget for hovering.

What are the timescales for that change?
Comment 9 Dani Megert CLA 2005-12-20 09:42:31 EST 
Not on the 3.2 plan.
Comment 10 Dani Megert CLA 2006-03-14 03:16:50 EST 
Fixed in HEAD.