A page encoded in UTF-16 will have garbage produced in the status bar when hovering over a link on the page. It should show the relevant URL. Test case coming. Mozilla 2002-09-10-14.

Load the test case, hover the link and look at the status bar.

Confirmed using FizzillaCFM/2002091014 on 10.1.5. I see Chinese characters instead of javascript:void(). This will probably end up at Internationalization, so sending it there.

I saw this on WinXP-SC too, change platform to All.

Has this bug accidentally been fixed? It works fine in newer 1.2a builds (this with 2002101408 on Jagwire).

Yes, looks like fixed - Display as "javascript:void()" in 10-14 trunk build but still garbled in branch build.

Not fixed in trunk either: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=106911&action=view

What's the status of this bug? The test page attached to this bug doesn't display reasonably with UTF-16, UTF-16(big) or UTF-16(little). The only one with which a link actually appears is UTF-16(little): the rest of the page is an apparently random mix of Chinese characters and question marks, but the link appears as "link" and the status-bar text is correct. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040714

I think both roy and me are off mozilla for more than 2 years. If these bugs are still here now, I think the real stauts is 'won't fix'. If you want to reopen it, please find a new owner for it first.

Mass Reassign Please excuse the spam

Mass Re-opening Bugs Frank Tang Closed on Wensday March 02 for no reason, all the spam is his fault feel free to tar and feather him

Reassigning Franks old bugs to Jungshik Shin for triage - Sorry for spam

I've loaded the testcase into Firefox 1.0.1 and Mozilla 1.8b-0120 (Win2K). Both detect the page as UTF-16 Big-Endian; both display correctly; and both show the link text in the status bar correctly. Compare to comment 7, when I was testing with a 1.8a3 build back in July, where I was encountering obvious problems. Therefore => WFM