106360 - charset parameter for external JS ignored

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[bobj]

The charset parameter for external JS scripts seems to be ignored.  E.g., 

 <script language="JavaScript" src="isolatin1.js" charset="iso-8859-1"></script>

or

 <script language="JavaScript" src="utf8.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

It appears to ignore the charset parameter and assume the external JS script
is in the same encoding as the HTML document.

For the spec, see http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/scripts.html#edef-SCRIPT

I'll zip up my test cases and attach to this bug.

Comment 1

[bobj]

Attachment: zipped test .html and .js files

Comment 2

[bobj]

cc'd teruko

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

--> Internationalization

Related to, or dupe of, one of these:


                             bug 63626
                             bug 104209
                             bug 103954
                             bug 104227

Comment 4

[Phil Schwartau]

I would say bug 104227 seems the most similar -

Comment 5

[bobj]

This bug is about the charset parameter for the <script> tag used for EXTERNAL
JS files which does not appear to be addressed by any of the other bugs
E.g.:
 <script language="JavaScript" src="xx.js" CHARSET="iso-8859-1"></script>

bug 63626
  Requests that when there is an encoding mismatch, we provide some feedback
  about the error instead of silently failing.  

bug 104209
  Not enough details in this report (e.g., encoding of .html and .js,
  parameters used by the <script> tag used).  Marked dup of bug 63626.

bug 103954
  In this bug, both the .html and the .js are encoded in UTF-8.  I'm not sure
  this is even an encoding problem.

bug 104227
  Related to HTML <Meta> tag and INLINE JS.

Comment 6

[Roy Yokoyama]

->nhotta

Comment 7

[nhottanscp]

Attachment: request->mElement->GetCharset(charset) succeeded but the returned value 'charset' was ignored, fixed that problem.

Comment 8

[Frank Tang]

Comment on attachment 55846 [details] [diff] [review]
request->mElement->GetCharset(charset) succeeded but the returned value 'charset' was ignored, fixed that problem.

r=ftang

Comment 9

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Comment on attachment 55846 [details] [diff] [review]
request->mElement->GetCharset(charset) succeeded but the returned value 'charset' was ignored, fixed that problem.

sr=jst

Comment 10

[nhottanscp]

Checked in.

Comment 11

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Verified in 2001120108 Win32 build.