Closed Bug 213924 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

In textareas, non-breaking spaces (0xa0) are involuntarily changed to breaking spaces (0x20)

Categories

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

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 195946

People

(Reporter: timwi, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 WebWasher 3.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 WebWasher 3.2

Recently discovered on Wikipedia, http://www.wikipedia.org/

If you receive a form from the server which contains a textarea, which in turn
contains 0xa0 characters (ISO-8859-1 non-breaking spaces), and the submit the
form without any changes, Mozilla sends 0x20 (spaces).

This goes against all user expectation and is therefore a major bug.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Whiteboard: DUPEME

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 195946 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Component: HTML: Form Submission → DOM: Core & HTML
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