204324 - Unicode characters are not parsed in generated content

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Jordi Kroon]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.10 (Windows NT 5.1; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030429 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

In the page http://members.outpost10f.com/~jor/mozillabug.html , CSS is used to 
include the Unicode character reference ↪ before links with the class 
'offsite'. Mozilla can render the character in normal content, but displays the 
raw entity when it is generated by CSS.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a CSS rule a.offsite:before { content : " ↪ "; }
2. Give a link the class 'offsite'
3. Visit the page in a Gecko browser.

Actual Results:  
The raw entity ↪ is displayed before the link.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should display a curved arrow.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Mozilla's display is correct. CSS is not passed through the XML/HTML parsers, so
XML/HTML entities are not translated. Instead, you must use CSS character
references. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#q24 for the
appropriate spec.

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 218529 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 218842 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 219835 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Bill Mason]

v.

Comment 6

[Anne (:annevk)]

*** Bug 257129 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***