223762 - ampersand & converted to & but no other special characters like ü

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Matthias Buecher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Ampersands are converted to html code style (&) but all other special
character are not (ü = ü etc.)
On one side converting shouldn't be necessary at all because bookmarks.html is a
Unicode file and UTF-8 encoded.
On the other hand the contect type is text/html and all special characters
should be converted into their corresponding html code.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:



Expected Results:  
All special characters should be converted into their corresponding html code as
the contect type text/html indicates

Please check the Firebird project for this bug too.

Comment 1

[Paul van Schayck]

Reporter could you check if your bug is bug 252147 or bug 220581. In other words
are experiencing the conversion in the name or the url of your bookmark?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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