778431 - SVG saved as Unicode needing to be re-saved as UTF-8 or the SVG is broken

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Alan Gresley]

Attachment: digital-rain.svg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

Created a SVG file with Unicode characters and saved it as Unicode in NotePad2 and then uploaded it. Works fine in WebKit.


Actual results:

It somehow became corrupted. This file http://css-3d.org/images/digital-rain-test.svg gives a parsing error.

Opening this file in NoteTab Pro and re-saving it as UTF-8 fixes it. http://css-3d.org/images/digital-rain.svg

The attached file is my local copy. Offline, the bug does not happen.


Expected results:

That it works like WebKit.

Comment 1

[Alan Gresley]

I should add that this only happens with SVGs that have strange characters to begin with.

Comment 2

[mjh563]

(In reply to Alan Gresley from comment #0)
> It somehow became corrupted. This file
> http://css-3d.org/images/digital-rain-test.svg gives a parsing error.

That file is encoded as UTF-16 but the HTTP header says it's UTF-8:

Content-Type: image/svg+xml; charset=utf-8

Comment 3

[Alan Gresley]

(In reply to mjh563 from comment #2)
> (In reply to Alan Gresley from comment #0)
> > It somehow became corrupted. This file
> > http://css-3d.org/images/digital-rain-test.svg gives a parsing error.
> 
> That file is encoded as UTF-16 but the HTTP header says it's UTF-8:
> 
> Content-Type: image/svg+xml; charset=utf-8

Thank you. Then my bug report is wrong. The initial saving must have been encoded UTF-16 and WebKit was just using it. Please feel welcome to remove this bug report.