253703 - Non-ASCII characters replaced by "?" in Livemarks

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 324961

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[u60234]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040729-07

The swedish characters å, ä and ö are replaced by "?" in the Livemarks for these
feeds:
http://expressen.se/rss/nyheter
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1399 and
http://www.gnuheter.com/backend.php

These feeds are all using ISO-8859-1. This is a regression from the
2004-07-28-07 build where it worked fine.

This does not seem to affect all feeds with non-ASCII chars, there is no problem
with http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf.

Comment 1

[Radek 'sysKin' Czyz]

Same here - worked fine with 07-28, lots of ? character in 07-29. Feed is in
iso-8859-2.

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Confirming

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040730
Firefox/0.9.1+

Comment 3

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

As these are all 0.9 feeds, I'm guessing this is being caused by the patch for
bug 251595 landing on the branch.  Will look into it.

Comment 4

[u60234]

*** Bug 253906 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Some hebrew feeds give *all* question mark livemarks.
some examples:
http://israblog.nana.co.il/blog_rss.asp?blog=53405 (all the feeds on the site
have the same problem. the site is one of the major blog hosts in Israel)
http://www.notes.co.il/rss.asp?b=5 (and all the other feeds on the site, another
major Israeli blog host)


Using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2)
Gecko/20040810 Firefox/0.9.1+ on osx 10.3.5

Comment 6

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

Ok, patch for this is in on aviary; not on trunk yet, because it depends on a
patch that can't get in until 1.8a3 release is over.

Comment 7

[Jean-Marc]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Ok, patch for this is in on aviary; not on trunk yet, because it depends on a
> patch that can't get in until 1.8a3 release is over.
Well ?

Comment 8

[Bjørn S Tennøe]

Maybe this is not the same bug, but currently on Apple's feed,
http://www.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss
something makes my Firefox hang for some seconds. After this, the menu opens up,
and some characters are corrupted.

My installation:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
on Win XP SP2

Comment 9

[Bjorn]

I didn't have this problem with the official 1.0.x and 1.5.x.x releases, it returned in the 2.0a1 builds.
Live bookmarks containing the Norwegian characters æ,ø and å are replaced with '?'s.  The bug might have re-appeared as a result of 'Places', but I can't be sure of that since I never tried any 2.0 branch builds before Places was implemented.

I'm having the same issue on my mac (OS X 1.4.6).

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060405 Firefox/2.0a1 - Build ID: 2006040516

Comment 10

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

Comment 11

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Poorl little lost bug, broken twice, hidden once and fixed once, all without anyone noticing it until it was abandoned.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 324961 ***