Closed Bug 5224 Opened 26 years ago Closed 25 years ago

HTML form widgets don't show numeric character references

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

x86
Windows NT
defect

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VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: erik, Assigned: pierre)

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Details

Go to the URL shown above (sorry, Netscape internal for now), and click on the link that says "ncr" at the bottom. This brings up an HTML form on the right, but some of the numeric character references (NCRs) do not display correctly in the form widgets. Compare this with the Netscape 4.5 browser. Also, the form is truncated at the bottom. There are supposed to be widgets after the keygen element.
This page is written to use the Traditional Chinese character set. This leads me to ask three questions: a) should I edit the prefs.js file to use a Trad Chinese font, and b) we already have a bug about non-Western encodings not being displayed in widgets on forms using Japanese - is this the same problem or a new one? - and c) this page does NOT display correctly in IE 4 using Traditional Chinese encodings and fonts. Is anyone sure that the page is well-formed?
Assignee: karnaze → pierre
Target Milestone: M6
Moving to M6 and reassigning to Pierre (who is assumming gfx form controls except buttons).
Answers to cpratt's questions above: a) No, you don't need to edit prefs.js to set fonts any more. b) No, this bug seems to have something to do with NCRs (numeric char refs). c) The page displays correctly in Netscape 4.5, and I'm sure it's well-formed.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M6 → M7
Target Milestone: M7 → M8
I'm leaving 3 weeks on vacation. Pushing M9 bugs to M11.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
It looks like that one has been fixed while I was away.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
The page looks correct in the 1999092208 build of apprunner on Windows 98. (I compared it to IE5 and it's identical; guess MS fixed their problem in the meantime.)
Component: HTML: Form Submission → DOM: Core & HTML
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