452101 - Latin (extended ASCII) characters in install.rdf result in an "Invalid character" error when uploading an add-on.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Developer Pages, defect)

Description

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

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I'm trying to upload my add-on and I keep getting an error about an "Invalid character" being in the install.rdf file.  I tracked the problem down to a line that contains the name of one of my translators, Mikes Kaszmán István.  The upload parser is breaking on the 'á' character since if I change those to 'a' it works.

Accented characters are valid in the install.rdf file and the uploader should not break on them.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add the following line to your install.rdf file:
  <em:translator>Mikes Kaszmán István (hu-HU)</em:translator>


Actual Results:  
"The following error occurred while parsing install.rdf: Invalid character"

Expected Results:  
Add-on should have been accepted.

Comment 1

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

Work around: I could upload it if I changed his name to "Mikes Kaszmán István", but I don't think I should really have to do something like that.

Comment 2

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Are you using UTF-8?

Comment 3

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

Oops, turns out the editor I used to update the file didn't support UTF-8.  What threw me was that that particular character displays the same in ASCII as it does in UTF-8.

I used a different editor that supports UTF-8 and it uploaded fine.  Withdrawing.

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified per reporter; thanks for commenting back, Michael.