If you have the following in mozilla and click "test" nothing happens <a href="javascript:var x='på'; alert(x);">test</A> the console says: Error loading URL javascript:var%20x=%27p%E5%27;%20alert(x);: 805303f5 JavaScript error: line 0: missing variable name Works both in IE and Netscape 4.x This however will work in mozilla: <a href="javascript:var x='paa'; alert(x);">test</A> Build 20010119

The characters encountered by the browser are handled by the browser embedding of the JS Engine, not the JS engine itself. Reassigning to Internationalization component for further triage - cc'ing jst. Is this a dupe of bug 55468?

Reassign to jst.

This bug has been marked "future" because the original netscape engineer workingon this is over-burdened. If you feel this is an error, that you or another known resource will be working on this bug,or if it blocks your work in some way -- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration.

What can I say other than this is gonna break web pages. But as long as I still have Netscape 4.x or IE laying around it's not a mission critical bug. But this will not help me to be 100% Mozilla user...:)

We probably don't care if this only a issue in alert. But I think the alert here is just use as a simplified test case. The real problem is these JavaScript is inside the HREF. We escape them since other URL need to be escaped but we didn't consider the case for JavaScript. What we should do is find out the code between the layout engine and the javaScript code and unescape it back by using the document charset. I think this bug is in the border line of fixing or not fixing. Let's keep this as future untill we find breakage in the real world case.

live URL: http://www.jubii.dk/robert/ try to click on "STEM" just left of "Bænken".

cc to momoi

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51355 ***

Verified as dup.