Closed Bug 545488 Opened 14 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Using astral plane code points in a bug report fails

Categories

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, defect)

Product:
Bugzilla
Component:
Creating/Changing Bugs
Version:
3.4.5
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 405011

People

(Reporter: dg, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.323.0 Safari/533.1
Build Identifier: version 3.4.5

I have just tried to file a bug on Thunderbird concerning a problem with its Unicode support. I included an example of the text in question; Bugzilla failed spectacularly, truncating my bug report at the first astral plane code point.

The bug report in question is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545478.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to file a bug report using some text containing characters in the Unicode astral plane range --- there's an example at http://twitter.com/hjalfi/statuses/8690602802.
Actual Results:  
The bug report is truncated at the first astral plane code point.

Expected Results:  
I see the text in the bug report.

This *may* have security implications --- I don't know why it's truncating the bug report, but it smells like it's misparsing the text, and that sort of thing needs looking at closely in case it's doing something unexpected.
I shall now attempt to add the text sample in question to this bug report to see whether 'Additional Comments' fails too.
Dodgy text start: [
Yes, that truncated it as well.
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Version: unspecified → 3.4.5
My guess would be that MySQL is doing it, actually, not Bugzilla. Where in the Unicode space do these characters start?
Severity: normal → minor
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
I've heard rumours MySQL doesn't support astral plane properly. These specific characters are MATHEMATICAL BOLD FRAKTUR from U+1D56C to U+1D59F, but I suspect it would work with anything above U+FFFF.
Ahh, do you know what version of Unicode those were added in? It may be that either Perl or MySQL aren't using that version of Unicode.
3.1.0, apparently:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1d56c/index.htm

(Which came out in 2001...)
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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