154214 - escape codes are not converted to characters when saving files

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 76799

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Colin S]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020621
BuildID:    2002062109

In filenames, characters other than 0-9,A-Z,a-z, or the _ . - , characters are
saved with URI escape codes (space becomes %20, ä becomes %E4, etc.)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a file with a space or other character not specified above.
2. Save it.

Actual Results:  Characters are still in URL escape codes.

Expected Results:  Converted the characters to standard ASCII codes. (Or
JIS/SJIS/ISO-2022-JP codes for Japanese, etc.)

Comment 1

[timeless]

Actually, no.

on ntfs, we have Unicode available, we should use it.

on fat, we should so whatever ms suggests.

Comment 2

[Colin S]

Agreed. Well, for non-ASCII characters use Unicode, otherwise just use ASCII.
(Why waste two bits when you can use only one?)

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Dup of "File...Save As is not unescaping filenames"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76799 ***

Comment 4

[timeless]

vrfy dupe