64907 - Q (quote) tags display wrong character when nested

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 24861

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Dave Hodder]

Q (quote) tags don't nest properly.  Here is a fragment of HTML:

<p lang="en">Ben said, <q>We went to the Sisters concert, and shouted <q>Hey, 
shorty!</q> at their diminutive lead singer.</q></p>

It should appear as:

Ben said, "We went to the Sisters concert, and shouted 'Hey, shorty!' at their 
diminutive lead singer."

Instead it appears in Mozilla as:

Ben said, "We went to the Sisters concert, and shouted "Hey, shorty!" at their 
diminutive lead singer."

Also see the HTML 4.01 spec: 
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#h-9.2.2.1

Comment 1

[Stephan Niemz]

Attachment: the mentioned test case

Comment 2

[Stephan Niemz]

Confirming with build 2001010420 on NT4.

Comment 3

[Cormac F]

Pretty Sure this is a dup. Remember looking for this a few months ago .I 
haven't time now to find the exact bug number, but I'll add it later if I get a 
chance

Comment 4

[Dave Hodder]

Just a thought: the Q element could possibly be extended further to support
Unicode "smart quotes"; for example:

Opening Q tag (English):
  * “ (left double quotation mark, U+201C ISOnum)
  * ‘ (left single quotation mark, U+2018 ISOnum)

Closing Q tag (English):
  * ” (right double quotation mark, U+201D ISOnum)
  * ’ (right single quotation mark, U+2019 ISOnum)

Opening Q tag (German):
  * „ (double low-9 quotation mark, U+201E)
  * ‚ (single low-9 quotation mark, U+201A)

... Etc.

Comment 5

[Richard Brodie]

Yes, duplicate of bug 24861.

Comment 6

[Stephan Niemz]

I agree.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24861 ***

Comment 7

[Håkan Waara]

Yup, verified duplicate.

Comment 8

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.