848268 - Firefox passes a wrong filename to an external source viewer (non-UTF-8 encoding in locale)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Kusanagi Kouichi]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 Iceweasel/19.0
Build ID: 20130220104629

Steps to reproduce:

Start firefox in ja_JP.eucJP locale
Set view_source.editor.external to true
Set view_source.editor.path to /usr/bin/vi
Open http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/jp/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html
View source


Actual results:

vi opens a new file and show the following message:
/tmp/Adobe - Flash Player\xef\xbc\x9a\xe8\xa8\xad\xe5\xae\x9a\xe3\x83\x9e\xe3\x83\x8d\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x82\xb8\xe3\x83\xa3\xe3\x83\xbc.html: new file: line 1

vi "/tmp/Adobe - Flash Player：設定マネージャー.html" shows the following message:
/tmp/Adobe - Flash Player\xa1\xa7\xc0\xdf\xc4\xea\xa5\xde\xa5\xcd\xa1\xbc\xa5\xb8\xa5\xe3\xa1\xbc.html: unmodified: line 1


Expected results:

vi opens a correct file.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

(it seems that such bugs are either in Core → i18n, or in Fx → General)

Comment 2

[Kusanagi Kouichi]

Attachment: Convert to native character encoding instead of utf-8

Comment 3

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Bug 960957 dropped the remains of support for non-UTF-8 paths. (Such configurations were very broken already.)