160288 - mailto: use encoding defined for page for subject etc.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Gerd Riesselmann]

If a subject is predefined using the mailto-protocol in an anchor, it is not
encoded like the rest of the page (using both <?xml version="1.0"
encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> and <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />), but treated as default encoded.

On the test site, click on the first link in the Feeback section on the right
hand side saying "Kommentar zu diesem Artikel". A mail client pops up, but the
subject line does not display the german special chars correctly. Instead
something like "ü" appears, so it seems, the subject is treated as unicode
encoded. 

In IE6, it works fine.

I use MS Outlook XP as default mail handler by changing user.js with
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true);


System:
Mozilla 1.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
WinNT SP6A + Postfixes German

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The chars show up fine for me, using Mozilla as my mail client....

Comment 2

[Joseph Delaney]

Works for me on Mac OS X (2002072408). It seems you are using a somewhat old
build - 20020530 (30 May 2002). Have you tried this with Mozilla 1.1b or a
nightly build?

Comment 3

[Vladimir Ermakov]

resolving wfm on build 2002-09-03-08-trunk win 2k