75344 - In the title bar, accented characters are shown without accents/displayed incorrectly in Big5 environment

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 9449

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Seak, Teng-Fong]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010323
BuildID:    2001032319

I'm using Win2k in Big 5, ie Traditional Chinese, environment.  Webpage title
which is in another language, eg French, doesn't get displayed correctly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.I make an HTML file whose title is supposed to be "Un titre écrit en français"
2.In the code, I put
<title>Un titre &eacute;crit en fran&ccedil;ais</title>
3.This time, I put
<title>Un titre écrit en français</title>

Actual Results:  For 2, the actual title is "Un titre ecrit en francais", ie
accents are removed.
For 3, it's even worse.  The actual title is "Un titre ?crit en fran?ais"

Expected Results:  "Un titre écrit en français", of course.

Maybe you need to convert any title string from any language/charset to Unicode
before passing it Windows?
How about that in Unix/Linux?

Comment 1

[Andreas Becker]

Changing QA contact to [e-mail]. Yuying, can you look into this and
confirm it?

Comment 2

[Yuying Long]

I checked it on 04-06 trunk on Win2k-Simp. Chinese, in both 2 and 3 case the
title show: "Un titre écrit en fran?ais" 
                (WinMe-Ja): "Un titre ecrit en francais"
and Page source title is: "Un titre écrit en français" in conposer 
and "Un titre écrit en français" when browser the page.

I'll confirm this one.  There is another bug 61676 very similar though.
  

Comment 3

[nhottanscp]

ylong, could you attach the test files?

Comment 4

[Yuying Long]

Attachment: test file for accent title bar.

Comment 5

[nhottanscp]

I think we have a limitation of showing window title string. There may already
be bugs filed for this.
Reassign to [e-mail].

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

I think dr has a bug on this. ->dr

Comment 7

[Dan Rosen]

this is a dup of bug 9449. the bug i have (bug 74753) may or may not also be a
dup, but the symptoms are slightly different.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9449 ***

Comment 8

[Seak, Teng-Fong]

Please note that I sent the bug for Win2k platform.  In fact, I've tested my own
example in IE in Win98SE Chinese version too, and it's clear that Win98SE can
only display string in its own locale.   For my example, only "Un titre ecrit en
francais" is displayed.  So, please don't consider the problem as resolvable in
platform other than Win2k.  I've found the following webpage in Microsoft
website dealing programming i18n for Win2k.  I'm sure you'll find the solution
(and probably solutions to other problems):
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/

Comment 9

[Seak, Teng-Fong]

I have an idea. It seems that you're making your own widgets for buttons,
scrollbars, etc (what's the name of this toolkit, by the way?). Why don't you go
a step further to create your own title bar (or even get rid of window border)?
That would be something like what winamp (or X11amp or equivalent under X) is
doing right now. Well, I won't suggest you to go even further to make
non-rectangular window border!
In this way, you could get around the totally the problem of i18n in Win9x platform.

Comment 10

[Yuying Long]

Verified as dup.