337074 - Live Bookmark entries with quote marks appear as ’, “ ”, etc.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 252147

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[deej]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

When Firefox loads an RSS feed, any article titles which appear with quote marks will appear with '’', '“' and '”' instead.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.apple.com/hotnews/
2. Click the RSS Live Bookmark symbol at the right of the site address
3. Add it to your Bookmarks Toolbar Folder
4. Wait for the RSS feed to load
5. Click the Live Bookmark in your Bookmarks Toolbar

Actual Results:  
A Live Bookmark entry labelled:
"Mac OS X Tip of the Week: Where’s That Folder?"

Expected Results:  
A Live Bookmark entry labelled:
"Mac OS X Tip of the Week: Where's That Folder?"

Being an RSS feed, the above example may disappear from the feed, however Apple's feed frequently has entries which include quote marks.

Comment 1

[deej]

Attachment: Example of the issue, using Apple's RSS Feeds as the example.

Comment 2

[deej]

Attachment: Example of the issue, using Apple's RSS Feeds as the example.

Comment 3

[deej]

I am aware of bug #245758, however that one is marked as Closed/Resolved. This issue has been present since Firefox 1.0.x, and is still present in 1.5.0.3.

Comment 4

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This is a dupe of bug 252147, which was resolved INVALID. The specific case of Apple's RSS feeds is doubly invalid, by the way, because the quote mark should have been encoded as ’ not ’

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 252147 ***