300435 - Cannot put accents into XHTML (application/xhtml+xml)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[David Betz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0+

The test harness at the below Url demonstrates this.

You wil notice that the second two boxes are blank.

These boxes are...
box3Obj.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Rèsumè'));
box4Obj.appendChild(document.createTextNode('R#232;sum#232;'));

http://davidbetz.net/FirefoxBugs/accents/?xhtml=1

If you were to use the alternate testharness at
http://davidbetz.net/FirefoxBugs/accents/ (which gives text/html), you will see
that everything is working fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. http://davidbetz.net/FirefoxBugs/accents/?xhtml=1
2. Look
3.

Actual Results:  
Blank boxes

Expected Results:  
Rèsumè in the boxes

The seriousness of this is that none of our XHTML applications can work with
proper spelling of certain words.  Not the most serious of issues by any means,
but it does prevent us from meeting our requirements.

Comment 1

[David Betz]

This was with the July 11 Nightly build (Deer Park Alpha 2) as well as Firefox
1.0.4.  I've never seen a version that works properly.

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

How about removing the comment you have wrapped around the js code...

Comment 3

[Bastian Grupe]

This should indeed be marked invalid, since comments do matter in XHTML/XML,
also in script tags. That's what <![CDATA[ ]]> is for.

To create a workaround for HTML4 browsers, visit:

http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml

Comment 4

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

Marking invalid INVALID as per comment 2 and comment 3