311300 - non-ASCII characters in href link are converted to utf8 without respect to page encoding

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 284474

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Gou Zhuang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

non-ASCII characters(such as gb2312 encoded chars) in href link are converted to
utf8 before they are escaped, even if the page has specified charset encoding.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. save the attached bug.html
2. point the browser at bug.html and click the link
3. the url displayed in the address bar is wrong

Actual Results:  
file:///this_is_a_fake_link_with_chinese_chars_encoded_in_gb2312/%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E7%AC%A6.html

Expected Results:  
file:///this_is_a_fake_link_with_chinese_chars_encoded_in_gb2312/%D6%D0%CE%C4%D7%D6%B7%FB.html

Comment 1

[Gou Zhuang]

Attachment: html source to reproduce the bug

Use this html page to reproduce the bug

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 284474 ***