362237 - Firefox requests URLs/IRIs with diacritics/accents incorrectly when they are typed into the location bar (and differently to when following a hyperlink)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to http://www.last.fm/music/Bj%C3%B6rk

2. Point to Post (the first one under Top Albums)

3. Notice the link's URL (probably technically an IRI) in the status bar is http://www.last.fm/music/Björk/Post

4. Type or copy that URL into the location bar

http://www.last.fm/music/Bj%F6rk/Post is requested, which does not exist.

5. Go back to http://www.last.fm/music/Bj%C3%B6rk and click the link

http://www.last.fm/music/Bj%C3%B6rk/Post is requested, which loads OK.

The URL should have been displayed as http://www.last.fm/music/Bj%C3%B6rk/Post in the status bar, so that manually typing it into the location bar (or using that address in a link on a forum, for example) would work.

I'm not entirely sure that this isn't last.fm's fault. If it is their fault, this is invalid (or a Tech Evangelism bug).

Bug 284474 may be vaguely related, but that's marked fixed.

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 3. Notice the link's URL (probably technically an IRI) in the status bar is
> http://www.last.fm/music/Bj�rk/Post
> 
> 4. Type or copy that URL into the location bar
> 
> http://www.last.fm/music/Bj%F6rk/Post is requested, which does not exist.

If that is the case we should fix it so that http://www.last.fm/music/Bj%C3%B6rk/Post is requested, rather than changing the status bar display to wallpaper over the bug; but in fact typing in http://www.last.fm/music/Bj�rk/Post works for me on both 1.8 branch and trunk (even with network.standard-url.encode-utf8 set to false). In which version are you seeing http://www.last.fm/music/Bj%F6rk/Post requested?

Comment 2

[Jungshik Shin]

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)

> > 4. Type or copy that URL into the location bar
> > 
> > http://www.last.fm/music/Bj%F6rk/Post is requested, which does not exist.
> in fact typing in
> http://www.last.fm/music/Bj�rk/Post works for me on both 1.8 branch and trunk
> (even with network.standard-url.encode-utf8 set to false). 

What's typed in the location bar is always converted to UTF-8 before making a request (at least in FF 1.5 or later/Gecko 1.8 or later). This bug was filed against gecko 1.0 branch. I'm not sure that's what the reported meant to do. 

Comment 3

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> In which version are you seeing http://www.last.fm/music/Bj%F6rk/Post requested?

Firefox 2 – Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

(In reply to comment #2)
> This bug was filed
> against gecko 1.0 branch. I'm not sure that's what the reported meant to do. 

I filed it against Firefox 2; Simon changed that to Core 1.0 when he took the bug. I'm changing it to Core 1.8 now since there's no Core 1.8.1 option.

Bugzilla and/or Firefox seem to be screwing the character encoding of this page up. Comments 1 and 2 contain occurrences of "Bj�rk", with an umlauted i, an inverted question mark and a half fraction. So to clarify, any character or sequence of characters appearing in comment 0 between "Bj" and "rk" that aren't "%C3%B6" or "%F6" should be an umlauted o.

Also, bug 17889 is really annoying.

Comment 4

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> If that is the case we should fix it so that
> http://www.last.fm/music/Bj%C3%B6rk/Post is requested, rather than changing the
> status bar display to wallpaper over the bug

Retitling/morphing the bug to this.

Comment 5

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > This bug was filed
> > against gecko 1.0 branch. I'm not sure that's what the reported meant to do. 
> 
> I filed it against Firefox 2; Simon changed that to Core 1.0 when he took the
> bug.

I didn't touch the Version field when reassigning. Perhaps this is a bug in Bugzilla?

Comment 6

[Jungshik Shin]

I can't reproduce the bug in the page in FF 1.5.0.8. The page is in UTF-8 so that the problem reported cannot be an issue whether network.standard-url.encode-utf8 is set to true or false. 

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

closing WFM per comment 6 & 7.  please reopen if you see otherwise.