179076 - When an edit field is filled and the content of this field is further displayed, if it contains characters with accent, those characters are not displayed correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126266

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, defect)

Description

[Johan Guihéneuf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

I entered my name, which contains an accent (Johan Guihéneuf; Johan
Guih&eaccute;neuf), in the edit field in the account page on Buzilla. When I
look at one of the bugs I reported, my name is displayed incorrectly: the "e
with an accute accent" is replaced by a "? in a square".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In an edit field on a web site ( for exemple, the account page on Bugzilla ),
enter a string with a character with an accent. To do that, use a french
keyboard or a program able to insert non-english latin characters.
2. In case of bugzilla, validate the changes in the account
3. display a bug page where the value entered in the edit field is displayed.

Actual Results:  
The "e with an accute accent" was replaced by a "? in a square"

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should display correctly those characters, or transform the value in the
edit field in an normalised HTML string ( replace the "e with an accute accent"
by \&eaccute; before sending it to the web site.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Mozilla should use the encoding the site tells it to use.  Then it's the site's
job to deal with the chars correctly.  This is a bug in bugzilla.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126266 ***