257401 - Composer changes html ® (registered name symbol) to non standard html code.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 174216

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Clive]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

When opening a html page in Composer in Mozilla 1.7.2 it changes the standard
html ® which represents the registered name symbol (R) to A(R) and displays
it in Mozilla as ??

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use composer to open a page containing registered names using ® symbol.
2.Save the page using a different name.
3.Open the saved page in Mozilla.

Actual Results:  
Composer changes the html code from ® to A® and it displays as ??

Expected Results:  
The registered ® symbol should display as ®

This is the page where composer is changing the code. 
http://www.ranbuild.com.au/colors.htm

Comment 1

[Gérard Talbot]

I see ® in the source code and I see (R)® in Composer's HTML source editing
mode. Mozilla 1.8a3 build 2004090105 under XP Pro SP2 here.
DUPLICATE of bug 200264 or bug 174216. I need to triage bug 225209 also.

Comment 2

[Gérard Talbot]

I see ® in HTML source editing mode if the character encoding of the
document is iso-8859-1.

I see the (R) glyph in HTML source editing mode if the character encoding of the
document is utf-8; everytime the named character entity reference (ie ®) is
typed in, edited, it is converted back to the (R) glyph in HTML source. I don't
know if this is actually a bug or a feature.

Comment 3

[Gérard Talbot]

The document at the url you provided is saved under Unicode utf-8; that's
important to mention.

Comment 4

[Frankie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 174216 ***