460567 - em dash (aka long hyphen, —) in title doesn't display correctly in frameset page

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ludovic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

For most people, the URL I specify will redirect to http://www.dev-archive.net/articles/xhtml.html, which contains a short hyphen (en dash) in the title. If you go to the reddit commments page of the URL, http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/75oco/xhtml_myths_and_reality/, the title will contain a long hyphen (em dash) and it will display correctly.

If, however, you have a reddit account which you are logged into and you enabled the reddit toolbar in your preferences, then the devarchive page will be loaded as a frame, with above it a small frame which contains a reddit toolbar. Here the frameset page contains a title with the same hyphen as the reddit comments page, but the hyphen displays as '?—?' instead of just '—'. When you do a view source, it correctly displays '—'.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to reddit.
2. Go to preferences -> clicking options and enable 'display links with a reddit toolbar'.
3. Go to ttp://www.reddit.com/goto?id=75oco and observe the title.
Actual Results:  
Show 'XHTML ?—? myths and reality'

Expected Results:  
Should show 'XHTML — myths and reality'

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for Firefox General bugs filed against version 3.0 that are UNCO and have not been changed for 200 days.

Reporter, please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or alter. Firefox 3.0 is no longer supported and is no longer receiving updates. After you update, please create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/kb/managing+profiles, and test to see if your bug still exists. If you still the bug, then please post a comment with the version you tested against, and the problem. If the issue is no longer there, please set the RESOLUTION to  RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.