331572 - Line breaks submitted as &#10; instead of <LF>

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Eric Brewer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

If a page is encoded in non-Western charset and the form is submitted with method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data", the line breaks in text areas are being submitted as '&#10;' instead of '<LF>'.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the attached HTML file. Press Submit button.
2. Save the returned page as a plain text file (compare with the attached text file).
3. Open the text file in a text editor.

Actual Results:  
Notice the line:
Enter&#10;text&#10;with&#10;line&#10;breaks

Expected Results:  
This line should have looked like:
Enter
text
with
line
breaks

This bug makes Firefox unusable for foreign language web-based mail services.

Comment 1

[Eric Brewer]

Attachment: HTML file containing the form

Open the file and press "Submit"

Comment 2

[Eric Brewer]

Attachment: The returned page saved as a plain text file

Line breaks have been replaced with 


Comment 3

[Eric Brewer]

> 2. Save the returned page as a plain text file (compare with the attached text
> file).

Sorry, actually the returned page should be saved as Web Page HTML Only. Then open it as plain text.

Comment 4

[zug_treno]

Related to Suite bug 241263?

Comment 5

[Eric Brewer]

> Related to Suite bug 241263?

Looks similar to me, although they could not make it reproducible for some reason. I guess the problem occurs whenever the page is set to non-Western encoding.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this still a problem with current trunk builds?  I can't seem to reproduce on Linux, but maybe this is Mac-only...