249395 - Apostrophe in bookmark name converted to ', displays as '

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 245758

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[jcoles0727]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

Some of my bookmarks have an apostrophe (') in their name. The apostrophe
appears in the Bookmarks menu as "&amp#39;". It looks like hell and I'm
surprised that it isn't a frequently-reported bug. 
I think the problem is a double-conversion of the apostrophe, first to '
(ok), then to '. The & is being inappropriately converted to an entity
constant (is that the right term?) as if it is a literal "&", when it is
actually part of the special character code "'".
I can fix the problem by exporting the bookmarks to a file, replacing all
instances of "'" with "'", and re-importing the bookmarks with Manage
Bookmarks. The fix persists for a while, then one day I start Mozilla and find
my bookmarks are corrupted with that ugly "&amp#39" error again. I have not so
far determined what triggers the change.
One trigger for this corruption, (I don't think it's the only one) is to run a
version 1.8 nightly build and then run version 1.6. 
The fix is simple: never convert the "&" character to "&" in a string where
"&" is followed by "#", an integer, and then ":".


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

have a look at 
Bug 245758 Persisting bookmarks file converts ' to ' in bookmark title
(apostrophe, lsquo, entity)

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #0)
> One trigger for this corruption, (I don't think it's the only one) is to run a
> version 1.8 nightly build and then run version 1.6. 

It is the only one. See the bug mentioned in comment 1, which was a regression
in some 1.8a nigthly builds. With current nightlies or 1.7.1 you don't have the
problems anymore (but you have to correct the "'" manually). 

Please resolve this bug as duplicate of Bug 245758 and upgrade to newer
builds/releases.

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 245758 ***