Closed Bug 63314 Opened 24 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Javascript URL with non-ascii character becomes garbled.

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 51355
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: bratell, Assigned: neeti)

References

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URL
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Details

(Keywords: intl) 

The html below doesn't work in Mozilla because the url is quoted.

<html><body>
<a href="javascript:alert('Hej och hå');">foo</a>
</body></html>

Mousing over the link shows that it turned into:
   javascript:alert(%27Hej%20och%20h%E5%27);
which isn't legal Javascript. Clicking it makes the javascript engine yell about
syntax errors. If I remove the å, I get the normal:
   javascript:alert('Hej och h');
and the url works fine. In MSIE both url:s are working fine.

I don't know the rules for javascript url:s but, even if å has to be quoted into
%E5, the rest of the code shouldn't be touched.

Real world example: Open the URL http://web.bratell.nu/andreas/pictures.asp and
try to click on a picture. A new window should open, but instead we get syntax
errors from javascript.

This was tested on Windows 2000 with a build built today (2000-12-19).
Actually, this should be escaped (it's supposed to be an URI[0]), so I guess it 
should be unescaped before handing it to the JS engine. I strongly suspect this 
to be a dupe of an existing bug.

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#adef-href
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Could be a dupe of one of these bugs:

                           bug 55468
                           bug 66055
                           bug 70873 

Added intl keyword.
Keywords: intl
This WW3 link may be of interest:

     http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#non-ascii-chars


I believe this bug is a duplicate of bug 51355:

         "javascript:code" doesn't work in hrefs properly"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51355 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
QA Contact: tever → benc
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