242652 - mailto: subject field is wrong

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 215046

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Shay Atzitz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: mozilla / firefox

when clicking a mailto: link with a subject in hebrew,
the subject line passed to the mail agent (oulook express in this case),
is wrong

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.click the links with the mailto:
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The subject line is wrong

Expected Results:  
pass the subject line as is

Comment 1

[Shay Atzitz]

Attachment: A Screen snapshot

This screen snapshot shows the message created - with the wrong subject,
and the link that was clicked on the FireFox status line

Comment 2

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

*** Bug 242651 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Shay Atzitz]

This phenomenon also happens with the Mozilla browser, and not limited to the 
Firefox Browser.

Comment 4

[Aavo Tambur]

The OS field should be changed to All, as this problem is also present under
Linux, and manifests itself whenever the default email client is not from the
mozilla family. I.e. under Linux the Firefox -> KMail combo exhibits this
behaviour as well as under Windows the Firefox -> Outlook/Outlook Express combo.

I believe this has to do with the fact that Firefox/Mozilla will always encode
non-ascii characters in URIs into UTF-8 before passing them on, and above
mentioned email clients cannot handle UTF-8 encoded URIs.

Comment 5

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

->BROWSER

(leave it to someone else to set)

Comment 6

[Christian Schmidt]

A duplicate of bug 215046?

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 8

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> A duplicate of bug 215046?
No

Comment 9

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> A duplicate of bug 215046?

Yes it is, and that bug even narrows it down to where we must be going wrong.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 215046 ***