29698 - Non-Ascii directory & file name should be displayed as it is in URL

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 105909

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I found this when I try to verify bug 28784.

Steps of reproduce
1. Create some non ASCII file name (for example, in Japanese system, create 
folder c:\日本語 and create a file called 本田.txt
2. Select menu File | Open Files to select c:\日本語\本田.txt

Notice that in URL bar displays as
file:///C|/%93%FA%96%7B%8C%EA/%96%7B%93c.html

In 4.x,
file:///D|/日本語/本田.html

Tested 2000022909 Win32, Linux, Mac build.

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

URL related issue. Reassign to nhotta and cc jbetak

Comment 2

[nhottanscp]

28784 is reopened adding it to dependency.

Comment 3

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Changed QA contact to [e-mail].

Comment 4

[Yuying Long]

nominate as nsbeta1

Comment 5

[nhottanscp]

nsbeta1-
non functional problem, might affect non local case, e.g. ftp.

Comment 6

[William Stinson]

Attachment: Screenshot of Mozilla displaying URL badly (but the page is shown OK)

Screenshot 1 attached is url1.png   It shows the bad display of the URL even
though the page is correctly displayed

Comment 7

[William Stinson]

Hi

I noticed a problem which seems related to the issue described here. I opened
the following URL on my computer (Mozilla 0.9.4 on Linux Mandrake 8.1) using the
menu item 'File/Open File' :
        file:/mnt/win_d/WebSite/floppy/10 août/index.html
the page displays fine but the URL reference is displayed as:
        file:////mnt/win_d/WebSite/floppy/10%20ao%FBt/index.html
Testing on the same computer using Konqueror 2.2.1 the URL is correctly shown as
        file:/mnt/win_d/WebSite/floppy/10 août/index.html

Looks like the display of blank character is put to '%20' and û is shown as
'%FB'. A cosmetic problem.

Worse still if I cut/paste the above URL into the browser (instead of using the
  menu item 'File/Open File') and hit enter the browser redisplays the following
rubbish URL
        file:///mnt/win_d/WebSite/floppy/10%20ao%C3%BBt/index.html
and a blank page!  Looks like the URL input field can't handle the french
characters. 

This problem looks related to the bad display problem but the impact is much
worse (URL input field not accepting french characters in URL name).

Let me know if there is anything I can do to help further (or if I need to
report this in another bug report).

I can be contacted at 
[e-mail] 

Comment 8

[William Stinson]

Attachment: This shows what happens if the URL is cut/pasted directly to browser (and hit enter afterwards)

The second attachment URL2.png shows what happened after I cut/pasted the URL
into the browser and hit enter. THe URL is redisplayed strangely and a blank
page is shown!

Comment 9

[William Stinson]

Attachment: This screenshot shows how the URL displays in Konqueur 2.2.1

The URL is always shown correctly in Konqueuer 2.2.1 and both cut/pasting the
URL into the browser and the file open menus show the page and the URL
correctly (see URL3.PNG screenshot)

Comment 10

[William Stinson]

Hi

I did some testing on various browsers on WIN98 platform. Here are the results:
Netscape 4.7  URL displays OK (except ':' character shown as '|') and cut/paste
of the URL works.
Netscape 6    URL displays badly. Cut/Paste works (after hitting enter the page
shows but the URL displays badly)
IE URL displays OK and cut/paste of URL works
Opera URL displays OK and cut/paste of URL works

Comment 11

[nhottanscp]

Roy worked on another file URL bug before, reassigned to him.

Comment 12

[Frank Tang]

roy- do you agree to work on it ?

Comment 13

[Roy Yokoyama]

I think if 105909 gets fixed, then we don't have to worry
about this bug.  Marking as duplicate.




*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105909 ***

Comment 14

[Yuying Long]

I'm marking as verified now, will verify after bug 105909 fixed.