Keepassxc: Consider `&mdash` and `-` as the same character

[savchenko]

Summary

Consider &mdash and - as the same character when performing auto-type.

Examples

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Context

In the recent Firefox release, @mozilla have made a change of replacing regular dash with emdash:

• _Before:_ "Login - Mozilla Firefox"
• _After:_ "Login — Mozilla Firefox"

As the result, saved auto-type patterns are now invalid.

[keepassxc-bugtracking202011]

I have the same issue https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/5736
based on the changes implemented by mozilla https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1279647.

Really annoying change by mozilla impacting my hundreds of users with a lot of stored auto-type accounts.

[savchenko]

Reading Bugzilla I wonder if we may ask @mkaply why the change was necessary in the first place.

[droidmonkey]

So this is in the window title?

[savchenko]

So this is in the window title?

Yes:

[droidmonkey]

Your best bet at this time is to change your window association so they replace the emdash with *

[savchenko]

change your window association

Manually change record by record or there is an interface to apply this en masse?

[droidmonkey]

You'd have to go to each record

[mkaply]

This was done for aesthetic purposes. The emdash just looks better.

[h-h-h-h]

This was done for aesthetic purposes. The emdash just looks better.

It's also practical. Just recently I had it to do with quite a number of plaintext tabs where I quickly needed to read the filenames. The titles showed variable-length paths, filename and browser name. With the short hyphen, this was more annoying, because it doesn't visually separate as well as a longer dash and thus claims more brain power to do.

[mkaply]

Yeah, lots of pages use a - in their title. This makes it clear which is the Firefox bit and which isn't.

[hifi]

There's a silver lining for power users. An upcoming feature for 2.7.0 will make auto-type entries globally searchable from the selection window which can possibly make window associations unnecessary.

[r3times]

This was done for aesthetic purposes. The emdash just looks better.

"Thanks".