36039 - Window title can't handle non-8859-1 charsets

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[Richard Zach]

When setting the window title on a page in non-ISO-8859-1 charset, every
non-ASCII character shows up as a "?" in the window title.

To reproduce:
Go to:
http://www.dmoz.org/World/Russian/%f3%d4%d2%c1%ce%d9_%c9_%d2%c5%c7%c9%cf%ce%d9/
(Charset KOI8-R)
http://www.dmoz.org/World/Japanese/%a5%ec%a5%af%a5%ea%a5%a8%a1%bc%a5%b7%a5%e7%a5%f3/
(Charset EUC-JP)
http://msn.co.il/homepage.asp
(Charset WINDOWS-1255)

The pages themselves show up fine (right fonts, etc.)

Linux build 2000.04.16.06

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

reassign to peter trudelle. Peter- probably there are more people care about
window title text than you thought.

Comment 2

[Peter Trudelle]

I know, but it is still 7% of the users, and Daniel has worse bugs that affect
100%. reassigning to danm as p3 for M17.  Is this a dup of <A>
HREF="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28320">28320</A>?

Comment 3

[Peter Trudelle]

nominating for nsbeta2

Comment 4

[Peter Trudelle]

[nsbeta2+] will take fix until 6/1

Comment 5

[Peter Trudelle]

Mass moving all dated nsbeta2+ bugs to M19

Comment 6

[Stuart Parmenter]

taking bug

Comment 7

[Stuart Parmenter]

I have checked in a fix.  We now pass in the correct data to X...  what it does
with this data is up to the window manager... my window manager is using an
english font for the titles so it doesn't know how to show japanese characters. 
Could someone with the proper setup please verify this fix?

Comment 8

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I verified this in 2000-06-07-08 Win32 comm and Linux mozilla build and 2000-06-
06-08 Mac comm build.