236120 - Tab title is wrong with new URL encoding

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Letzgus]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

The tab title shows the encoded version of the URL containing german or french
umlauts rather than the human readable:
www.öko.de becomes www.xn--ko-eka.de

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open www.öko.de in a new tab
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
tab title is: www.xn--ko-eka.de

Expected Results:  
tab title should be: www.öko.de

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 236170 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

Moving to Browser and confirming per dup'ed bug.

Comment 3

[Sven Krohlas]

hmm, I just wanted to mention that my dupe was about the status bar text, not
the tab title... is this the same code?

Comment 4

[Joachim Noreiko]

I have found a problem that may be related.

My machine (mac) has the russian character set installed, so a site such as
http://ru.wikipedia.org/ displays a window title in cyrillic, and page content
in cyrillic. Yet the tab title is '????????'.

Is this a separate bug or part of the same?

Comment 5

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2pre) Gecko/2008070701 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

WFM - the tab title is displayed as "www.öko.de" for the URL in the bug heading, and as "Заглавная страница — Википедия" for the one in comment #4, wherever I look for it, i.e.,
- on the titlebar
- on the tabs themselves
- in the tooltips for the tabs
- in the Tabs menu, courtesy of the "Tabs menu" extension
- in the drop-down lists for the Back and Forward buttons

Notes:
1. A lot has happened since 2005 concerning support of non-ASCII characters, and non-Latin glyphs in general.
2. I checked it both with my usual profile on :0 and with a clean profile for a different username on :1