Closed Bug 1339913 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Erroneous HTML escaping of en dash (–) in feed titles and folders

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Feed Reader
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: mozilla.org, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0 Build ID: 20170126200443 Steps to reproduce: 1. Subscribe to http://hnapp.com/rss?q=score%3E200 in Thunderbird 45.7.1 Actual results: The folder name ends up being "score200 – hnapp" (missing less than reported in bug 1339910) and the feed name is "score>200 – hnapp". Expected results: The folder and feed name should both be "score>200 – hnapp", including the less than and en dash characters.
Component: Untriaged → Feed Reader
Product: Thunderbird → MailNews Core
The <title> is specified here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287#section-4.2.7.5 and therefore that representation is taken as is; it is incorrect and unnecessary to encode en.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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