KDE Applications and Line Breaks

[Bob Richards]

Hi:

I do a lot of cut/paste of text from web pages. 

I am trying to replace FireFox with Konqueror, and have run into what appears 
to be a bug.

The best way to explain this is by example.

>From the KDE list page, [ https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde ] 
cut/pasted into Kate (same results pasting to VI):
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This cut/paste from Konqueror

Using kde 
   To post a message to all the list members, send email to kde at mail.kde.org. 
You can subscribe to the list, or change your existing subscription, in the 
sections below. 
  Subscribing to kde 
   Subscribe to kde by....

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This cut/paste from Firefox (same results with mozilla, and SeaMonkey)

Using kde
To post a message to all the list members, send email to kde at mail.kde.org.

You can subscribe to the list, or change your existing subscription, in the 
sections below.
Subscribing to kde

Subscribe to kde by ....

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Notice the lack of blank lines in the Konqueror example. Looking at the 
original html, there are TWO line breaks for a blank line.  These translate 
correctly  into TWO "0A" (Line feed) chars in a Firefox cut/paste, but only 
one in a Konqueror cut/paste.
 
I have the same problem with Akregegator, and with Knode . None of 
these apps correctly translate blank lines (double line-feeds). While 
Akregegator and Konqueror display the blank lines correctly on the screen, 
Knode does not, none of these apps work correctly if I cut the text from the 
screen.
 
Is there a global setting in KDE for this issue? Is it a bug? Is there a 
work-around?
 
TIA
Bob
 
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