66055 - JavaScript doesn't fire when containing intl chars

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 51355

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

If you have the following in mozilla and click "test" nothing happens
<a href="javascript:var x='på'; alert(x);">test</A>

the console says:
Error loading URL javascript:var%20x=%27p%E5%27;%20alert(x);: 805303f5
JavaScript error:
 line 0: missing variable name

Works both in IE and Netscape 4.x

This however will work in mozilla:
<a href="javascript:var x='paa'; alert(x);">test</A>

Build 20010119

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

Attachment: html testcase

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

The characters encountered by the browser are handled by the 
browser embedding of the JS Engine, not the JS engine itself. 
Reassigning to Internationalization component for further triage - 

cc'ing jst. Is this a dupe of bug 55468?

Comment 3

[nhottanscp]

Reassign to jst.

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

This bug has been marked "future" because the original netscape engineer
workingon this is over-burdened. If you feel this is an error, that you or
another known resource will be working on this bug,or if it blocks your work in
some way -- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration.

Comment 5

[Henrik Gemal]

What can I say other than this is gonna break web pages. But as long as I still 
have Netscape 4.x or IE laying around it's not a mission critical bug. But this 
will not help me to be 100% Mozilla user...:)

Comment 6

[Frank Tang]

We probably don't care if this only a issue in alert. But I think the alert here
is just use as a simplified test case. The real problem is these JavaScript is
inside the HREF. We escape them since other URL need to be escaped but we didn't
consider the case for JavaScript. What we should do is find out the code between
the layout engine and the javaScript code and unescape it back by using the
document charset.

I think this bug is in the border line of fixing or not fixing. Let's keep this
as future untill we find breakage in the real world case.

Comment 7

[Henrik Gemal]

live URL:
http://www.jubii.dk/robert/

try to click on "STEM" just left of "Bænken".

Comment 8

[nhottanscp]

cc to momoi

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51355 ***

Comment 10

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Verified as dup.