331956 - keyword shortcut's %s parameter doesn't work with javascript when using special characters

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[pbspam]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

When launched from the command line, JavaScript seems to have a problem with strings containing encoded characters, like "%E9%E1%ED%FA%F5%FB".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a new bookmark, give it a keyword (i'll use "s"), and type the following in the location bar: javascript:document.write("%s");document.close();. Click OK.
2. type "s יץ" in the location bar. (if the latter two characters do not appear right, you can invoke them with Alt+0225 and Alt+0245, respectively.) Press Enter.

Actual Results:  
nothing happens, as though JS froze.

Expected Results:  
בץ (or, at least, %E1%3F :-)) printed in the document body.

If I assign the %s to a var first (like str="%s"), and then try to do some replace stuff, it doesn't work either. JS just doesnt seem to like %E1%3F-type strings when invoked from the command line. On the other hand, if I create a HTML file with <script>document.write("%E1%3F");document.close()</script>, it outputs %E1%3F. (at least something, i could process it with my own url decoding function)

Another inconsistency is that if I replace 

javascript:document.write("%E1%3F");document.close(); 

(it appears right after typing "s יץ") with 

javascript:document.write("יץ");document.close();

it works fine, and displays the two special characters.



It might seem a minor bug, but it's very irritating because one cannot preprocess search queries containing special characters with the .replace method.

Comment 1

[pbspam]

> 1. create a new bookmark, give it a keyword (i'll use "s"), and type the
> following in the location bar:
> javascript:document.write("%s");document.close();. Click OK.
> 2. type "s יץ" in the location bar. (if the latter two characters do not appear

Correction: the first "location bar" refers to the bookmark's Location: field, the second to the browser's main address bar.

Comment 2

[Mark Romero]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060327 Firefox/1.6a1

WFM

After following all the directions of the reporter I was no able to reproduce this bug. 

Comment 3

[pbspam]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060327
> Firefox/1.6a1
> 
> WFM
> 
> After following all the directions of the reporter I was no able to reproduce
> this bug. 

I just tried the otherwise exceptionally buggy Firefox/1.6a1, and WFM, too. However, there's still another problem with replace, I posted a new bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332024 .

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Reporter says WFM.