406398 - truncation to invalid UTF-8 character for the « Name » set in « User Preferences » when displayed at various pages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 363153

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect)

Description

[lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070427 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070427 Firefox/2.0.0.3

see below

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
« Name and Password »  in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi will generate  the Unicode Character 'REPLACEMENT CHARACTER' - U+FFFD « � » if you insert
lɛʁi____לערי ריינהארט
or a longer « Your real name (optional, but encouraged): »
while
lɛʁi___לערי ריינהארט
lɛʁi__לערי ריינהארט
lɛʁi_לערי ריינהארט
or a shorter one wil not generate that character.
Actual Results:  
broken

Expected Results:  
correct implementation

attachment
screen dump mozilla.org · UTF-8 · Bugzilla · User Preferences · Name · 01.jpg
folows

Dear friends,

the screen dump in the attachment will show two Mozilla Firefox windows one on top of the other.

At the window on the top I used
lɛʁi · לערי ריינהארט
in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi « Name and Password » .

As you can see the at « Reported: » you will find
2005-12-06 11:06 PST by lɛʁi · לערי ריינה�...
which contains the
Unicode Character 'REPLACEMENT CHARACTER' - U+FFFD « � » ; see
http://yi.wiktionary.org/wiki/project:bugzilla/unicode/U_FFFD?uselang=en#dummy

The window in the background was using
lɛʁi  לערי ריינהארט
in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi « Name and Password » where only
the « · » character was removed.

see details at « Steps to Reproduce »


This reminds me about

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=000332 · Broken UTF-8 cutoff breaks display in some browsers
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=005401 · "Corrupted"/truncated text on deletion log entry in Recent Changes

where database fields of a given length specified in octets / bytes are filed with UTF-8 text having the same or less characters.

Best regards Reinhardt [[user:Gangleri]]

P.S. Please contact me via email if you can confirm this bug. I would be happy to get my name corrected (changing it back to a « working » texct).

Comment 1

[lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט]

Attachment: screen dump mozilla.org · UTF-8 · Bugzilla · User Preferences · Name · 01.jpg

submitting attachment as mentioned at comment #0

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Don't test any unicode issues against bmo, test only against the current HEAD code.