80892 - Text fields do not accept 8bit characters

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 74088

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[olaf]

Linux CVS build from 20010513.
I can't enter ISO8859-1 8bit characters into text entry fields. They get
displayed as a funny inverted "?" symbol and submitted as a literal "?". This
means when I type e.g. the proper German name of Cologne or Munich into a form
entry it gets submitted as "M?nchen", which may render it impossible for the
server to process the request correctly.

Comment 1

[rods (gone)]

doesn't sound like a sizing issue - reassigning

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

an URL for the problem?

Comment 3

[olaf]

URL? any one with a text entry field, just try www.yahoo.de (since that's in
german it definitely needs to accept iso8859-1)

Comment 4

[Junk_HbJ]

Running 2001051308 / Win98SE, I tried 
http://www.google.de and
http://www.yahoo.de

All three accepted 'ä','ü','ö','ß' etc.
Furthermore, running this build, I just typed these "Umlaute" in Bugzilla's textbox.

Comment 5

[rubydoo123]

assigning to ftang for initial investigation -- Frank, this looks like it may be
a wfm, but I wanted you to look at it first.

Comment 6

[Alexey Chernyak]

Linux-only issue?
Maybe some fonts are missing or something like that?
no problem on Win2K

Comment 7

[Frank Tang]

can you make a screen shot and attach to the bug report ?

Comment 8

[olaf]

Attachment: google start page with text entry

Comment 9

[Frank Tang]

does it always show this <?> for latin text?
This looks like an rendering issue, not an input issue.
Maski- can you help to take a look at this ?
From the screenshot, It seems a ISO10646 font get used and claim it have such 
glyph but it only have the replacement glyph. 
are you using TTF ?

Comment 10

[Frank Tang]

reassign to katakai

Comment 11

[olaf]

It is not _just_ a rendering issue. The chars are submitted as an ASCII question
mark. Pressing the search button I find %3F in the URL at the place of any umlaut.
I do use TT fonts but the exact same config works fine in Mozilla 0.9, has
anything changed since wrt. font selection?

Even if it is a font problem, this should not affect form submission and we have
a slightly different bug.

Comment 12

[Masaki Katakai]

I've checked this on nightly on Solaris, yes, actually I can not
enter into the text field in the web page. I want to ask you to
verify the following, Sorry for stupid question, I know how to
input german on only Solaris. Can you tell me the exact instruction
on Linux with Japanese keyboards???

- Is this problem new on 0513 build? How about Mozilla 0.9, 0.8, 0.7?
- What will happen when you copy&past german text to the field
- What will happen when you type in URL field. (not on the input field,
  try URL field of Mozilla, also text field on Find dialog)
  In my environment of Solaris, I could enter in URL field and
  text field of Find. This problem happens on text field of web page,
  compose window.

Thanks.

Comment 13

[olaf]

I see this problem the first time. It is definitely not in 0.9 or dailies from
the weeks preceding it.

When I type an a-umlaut in the URL field, it gets displayed as the inverted
question mark symbol and submitted as %EF%BF%BD. That is UTF-8 for #FFFD, the
Unicode "replacement character", which is apparently also the character which
produces that strange glyph.

Copy and paste works in form field. Copy and paste in URL field displays
correctly and submits in UTF-8.
Typing in Find dialog produces the replacement character, paste in Find dialog
works.

Comment 14

[Masaki Katakai]

I found the exact problem and I've attached the patch in bug 74088.
If you have time, can you try the patch and put the results into bug 74088?

marked as DUP.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74088 ***

Comment 15

[olaf]

Sorry, I can't do any further testing by now, lack of time :-(

Comment 16

[Vladimir Ermakov]

verifying duplicate