272135 - international special characters in file names

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[akkad]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; pl-PL; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; pl-PL; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

when an <a> link or javascript points a file which name contains
international special characters (those not in english alphabet, like ó)
it's misinterpreted. urls with special characters should look like this
"zdj%3463cia.html", that is "zdjEcia.html" where this E should look like e with
a tail (e,)
polish more preferably use "zdjEcia.html" when writing web-pages, than
"zdjecia.html" or "zdj%636363cia.html", but firefox sees that like
"zdjAcia.html" don't know why - there are 2 codings Windows 1250 and ISO 8859-2
for polish letters
but character coding was specified in the html header on my web page and
everything works well in IE.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. write a web-page and with a link to some German or Polish i.e. wąż.html link
2. try to hotlink the page to index.html using the 3 mentioned letters (w ą ż)
and a .html extension. maybe make it in the navi-frame (make 2 frame-page) like
on my page
3. wąż.html should look like "w" + "a" with a tail + "z" with a dot over it

Actual Results:  
file not found, lower frame looks wrong coding, even though coding is specified
and looks nice in IE6

Expected Results:  
web page should open, all characters should look nice in both navigation and
main frame

I don't know how it would look like with special characters coded like this 
"ą" is more often "%462346" when you look in the url tab, but IE recognises
non-standard international links and it's hard to write a page, when i want
to hotlink to "zdjęcia.html" - in english "photos.html" i should every time
write in html something like this: <a href="zdj%62463cia.html"> what is very
confusing. i am used to type <a href="zdjęcia.html"> but it doesn't work in
firefox.
the probably causes are two: firefox does not recognise coding when it comes
down to opening url 
i must mention that the page was also displayed wrong. it is in frames.
both frames had specified windows-1250 coding
the upper frame actually looks nice,
but the lower frame characters look messed up, and when a link from the
lower frame is launched, it's misinterpreted. "zdje,cia.html" look lika
"zdj8cia.html" or "zdjAcia.html" i don't know, that letter is not in our alphabet.
cheers

Comment 1

[akkad]

Attachment: this is my page that causes problems

this is the web page that causes problems
i did not support the graphics, because it's not a valid link and not the case
of the bug
for those, who don't know Polish:
pick "AKT I", pick "Pinkerton", pick the 1st option. Use both in IE6 and
firefox
notice that after we choose pinkerton, in IE6 the bottom frame looks different
than in firefox.

Comment 2

[akkad]

http://www.andrewu.co.uk/
by posting my web page i also posted a script from this man
you can reuse it only for non-commercial purposes, or obtain the permission
from him

Comment 3

[Gary Christiansen]

It appears the recognition of any gif with unusual file names is somehow
failing. The following image will not load in Firefox but does load in both IE
and Netscape without any problems:
http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?31@@ee6b88b@1

The following page also has a number of gifs to display images that Firefox
cannot provide display for but other browsers are able to identify properly and
display:
http://home.mchsi.com/~yankeeap/home.htm

Comment 4

[rgtmp-bugzilla]

(In reply to comment #3)
> It appears the recognition of any gif with unusual file names is somehow
> failing. The following image will not load in Firefox but does load in both IE
> and Netscape without any problems:
> http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX?31@@ee6b88b@1

That doesn't happen only with files pointed by a <a> or <img> tags. Any file
with special carachters on its name or path will cause Firefox to not find the
file. When opening a file on Firefox trhough command line parameters, such as
when associating Firefox for default handler for some types of file extension,
it also fails to find files that contain special characters.

For instance, the following path:

'C:\Mídia\Flash\Artístico.swf'

Would make Firefox attempt to load the following file:

'/c:/M%EDdia/Flash/Art%EDstico.swf'

That causes Firefox to show the following error message:

"The file '/c:/M%EDdia/Flash/Art%EDstico.swf' was not found. Please check the
address".

Comment 5

[Vitaliy]

I've got Firexox v.1.0.1 MS Windows NT
Double clicking on html-file having Cyrillic (Windows 1251 coding) symbols in
its full path gives the error: "The file ... cannot be found". When I try to
open the same file from Firefox (File - Open File... menu dialog) - it opens
without any problems. The bug does not appear if I rename the file's path using
only English letters. Mozilla v.1.7.3 browser opens any files any way without
problems - irrelevantly to Cyrillic or English alphabet used.
Vitaliy

Comment 6

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I've got Firefox v.1.0.1 MS Windows NT
> Double clicking on html-file having Cyrillic (Windows 1251 coding) symbols in
> its full path gives the error: "The file ... cannot be found". When I try to
> open the same file from Firefox (File - Open File... menu dialog) - it opens
> without any problems. 

That looks like bug 263570.

Comment 7

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