1148720 - Seamonkey/Firefox garbles saved text files

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Johannes Leushuis]

Attachment: wget.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1
Build ID: 20150321194901

Steps to reproduce:

surf to local file wget.html (see attachment), which looks like

NAME
       Wget − The non−interactive network downloader.

SYNOPSIS
       wget [option]... [ URL ]...

DESCRIPTION
       GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web.
       It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP
       proxies.

etc.
choose File, Save As..., txt-format


Actual results:

The generated output looks like

    NAME

Wget ? The non?interactive network downloader.


    SYNOPSIS

wget [/option/]... [ /URL/ ]...


    DESCRIPTION

GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from
the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as
retrieval through HTTP proxies.

(lines are separated strangely, - is replaced by ?, indents given were there are no indents, indents taken where there are indents)


Expected results:

output should be like

NAME
       Wget − The non−interactive network downloader.

SYNOPSIS
       wget [option]... [ URL ]...

DESCRIPTION
       GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web.
       It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP
       proxies.

etc.

Comment 1

[therube]

Suppose its because some "characters" cannot be represented as "text", so it tries its best to do with what it can work with.

While you may look & see what looks like a - (dash), source shows it to be a "minus" (&minus) which can't be represented as ascii "text".

Likewise how do you represent "italics".  Source shows <i></i>, but again in ascii "text", there is no such thing.

(Sometimes when I want to emphasize something, even here, bugzilla, being text only, I'll tend to use /slashes/ to represent italics ;-). [Oh just how are you supposed to do a :wink: in "text"?])

Comment 2

[therube]

PS:  Wget in /ascii text/ can be had here, https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/.
(But of course not everything will be available that way.)

Comment 3

[Philip Chee]

<meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII">
This file claims to be 7 bit US-ASCII. However all the non-ASCII characters are &amp; encoded and this page (saved to disk) works for me. I can't reproduce the problem.