359237 - NPN_Status with non-ascii characters doesn't display anything

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[William Bardwell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

On WinME Japanese or Win98 Japanese, calling NPN_Status() in a plugin with Japanese characters (UTF-8 or Shift_JIS) shows nothing.  If the string starts with that, then nothing is shown, if the string starts with ASCII the ASCII is shown, but the Japanese is not.  It seems to work fine under Windozes from this century (e.g. WinXP)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Call NPN_Status in a plugin with non-ascii characters
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Actual Results:  
ASCII in a status string is displayed, but only if it is at the begining.

Expected Results:  
All of the stuff should be displayed, as long as it is legal stuff, and is int he current font.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

do you still see this problem when using firefox version 3.5 or 3.6?
If not, please close the bug (resolution WORKSFORME is one possibility).
And if you do see the problem, please provide an update comment.

Comment 2

[William Bardwell]

Well, Firefox doesn't support Win95/98/ME any more, so presumably this is non-operative.