288866 - Saving a page with special characters replaces the &copy, etc. with the actual symbol

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 195420

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bob Plankers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

Hey folks,

I apologize in advance if this is a known problem -- I searched around and it
looks similar to bug 256585 but not exactly the same. When I use File->Save Page
As... it takes the special characters, like © and ®, and saves them as
the actual character, so that the page on disk is not a copy of the page as it
was served. In my test case the saved file also has extra characters prepended
to the special characters, which really doesn't make it identical.

I used Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 to create the test page. My web server is
the stock Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 AS Apache, which serves pages up as utf-8.
The test page originally had a META tag in it specifying iso-8859-1 (below), but
the presence/absence of that line appears to have no bearing on the problem. I
double-checked the validity of the test page with validator.w3c.org, which found
no problems.

The line that I removed from the test, which doesn't seem to matter (I'm
including just as reference): <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

I discovered this while trying to do accessibility testing on dynamically
created pages which require authentication. If I save the page I can run the
validators like validator.w3c.org and Bobby against it.

Again, I apologize if this is a known problem or something I have missed on my end.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the example page (http://bob.plankers.com/test.html)
2. File->Save Page As...
3. Open the saved page.

Actual Results:  
Inserted extra characters, and replaced the original special character
description, like <p>&copy; </p>, with <p>© </p>

Expected Results:  
Saved the page with the &copy; in it, and not prepended additional characters.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to Composer bug 288384 and Core bug 195420?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.

Comment 4

[Bob Plankers]

My apologies for reopening this, as I did not get the automated closure messages
in time. However, I am still able to reproduce this behaviour in Firefox 1.0.7.

Comment 5

[Gabriel Chadwick]

Does it do it with 1.4.1 ? Or a trunk build ?

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Bob, your testcase is gone.

duping to bug 195420

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 195420 ***