Bug 17014 – REGRESSION: EUC-CN code A3A0 is mapped to U+E5E5 instead of U+3000

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: WebKit Misc.

[Anantha Keesara]

Reproduction steps:
1. Go to www.wo99.com

Issue:
The password label ("密 码") is displayed with a rectangle in the middle.

Expected:
A rectangular box should not be displayed in between the characters.

Other browsers:
IE, FF, Opera: work fine.

Reason:
looks like there  is a GB2312/GBK converter issue. Firefox's converter maps 'two bytes'  between 密 and 码 in the original document  to U+3000 but apparently the ICU converter used by Safari maps it to U+E5E5.

Nightly tested: WebKit r29785 

Attached is the screenshot and reduction.

[Anantha Keesara]

Created attachment 18694 [details]
screenshot

[Anantha Keesara]

Created attachment 18695 [details]
Reduction

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I do not think that this is a general problem with PUAs, renaming the bug to match its scope, as I understand it. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Some history: A3A0 (or 0300 in unencoded form) was undefined in original GB2312, GB2312-80, GBK or Microsoft's version of the latter. Due to what looks like a bug, it was mapped to Unicode U+3000 in browsers though. WebKit also used to have a workaround for this, added for <rdar://problem/3225472> "www.sina.com.cn uses A3A0 for full-width space". This workaround was lost when switching to ICU.

GB18030, which is the next iteration of GBK, maps it to a private use character U+E5E5, but browsers do not follow the spec in this.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Created attachment 18721 [details]
proposed fix

I am not sure if this code is actually needed in TextCodecMac, but I do not see any compelling reason to remove it, either.

[Darin Adler]

Comment on attachment 18721 [details]
proposed fix

r=me

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Committed revision 29826.