253623 - Improve support for non-ASCII file:// URLs

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Darin Fisher]

Improve support for non-ASCII file:// URLs.

Today, file:// URLs in Mozilla should be encoded using the filesystem charset
and then any non-ASCII character should be %-escaped.  However, it is often the
case that UTF-8 characters are passed to Necko via NewURI or GetFileFromURLSpec.
 The current implementation of GetFileFromURLSpec does not handle UTF-8 input
characters properly unless the native filesystem charset is UTF-8!

It might help if nsFileProtocolHandler::NewURI passed the native filesystem
charset as the origin charset parameter to nsStandardURL::Init.

Comment 1

[baffclan]

Attachment: Screenshot WinXP-JA

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

what's that screenshot supposed to demonstrate?

Comment 3

[baffclan]

This report in order for there to be a picture which is attached, thought that
it means that the folder name of non-ascii illegal character.

Comment 4

[Jungshik Shin]

Searching for 'non-ascii' turns up a lot of related bugs with different
approaches to resolve this and related issues. To ease the tracking, I'm listing
a couple of related bugs (we need 'related bugs' feature in bugzilla) : bug
263750, bug 278161.

Comment 5

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

a lot has improved here... and the bug isn't specifically actionable so I'm closing