Bug 27262 – Chromium: HTML exported isn't marked as being UTF-8

• Component: Platform
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Avi Drissman]

When exporting HTML for the clipboard or drag/drop, the charset isn't indicated. The Windows clipboard format is explicitly documented as being UTF-8, and all Linux apps assume UTF-8. On the Mac, though, unless otherwise indicated, ISO/IEC 8859-1 is assumed, which is wrong.

[Avi Drissman]

Created attachment 32713 [details]
Patch to mark clipboard HTML as UTF-8

This is corresponding to http://codereview.chromium.org/149414

[Darin Fisher (:fishd, Google)]

Comment on attachment 32713 [details]
Patch to mark clipboard HTML as UTF-8

> Index: WebCore/ChangeLog
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> [phone]  Avi Drissman  <[e-mail]>
> +
> +        Reviewed by NOBODY (OOPS!).
> +
> +        Explicitly mark the HTML generated for the Mac as being UTF-8 encoded.
> +        The Windows clipboard format is explicitly documented as being UTF-8,
> +        and all Linux apps assume UTF-8. On the Mac, though, unless otherwise
> +        indicated, ISO/IEC 8859-1 is assumed, which is wrong.

nit: Your ChangeLog should include a link to this bug.

Otherwise, R=me

[Avi Drissman]

Created attachment 32718 [details]
Links to the bug now; no other changes

[Jungshik Shin]

nit: a bit of change in the comment and the bug description is necessary.

Judging from the way it's broken without your patch, what's assumed is not ISO-8859-1 nor MacRoman but windows-1252 (it's a bit odd to see that on Mac OS X :-)). 

For instance, U+2018 (Left Single Quotation Mark) whose UTF-8 representation is "0xE2, 0x80, 0x98" is converted to "U+00E2, U+20AC, U+02DC". If it's interpreted as ISO-8859-1, it would be converted to "U+00E2, U+0080, U+0098".

[Darin Fisher (:fishd, Google)]

Comment on attachment 32718 [details]
Links to the bug now; no other changes

r- for revised changelog per feedback from jshin.  i'll commit the next patch.
-darin

[Avi Drissman]

Created attachment 32724 [details]
New version; addresses jshin's comments

[Darin Fisher (:fishd, Google)]

Landed as: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/45878

(The patch didn't apply cleanly... hand-editing in the ChangeLog portion of the diff?)

[Avi Drissman]

(In reply to comment #7)
> (The patch didn't apply cleanly... hand-editing in the ChangeLog portion of the
> diff?)

Yes, that's the precise reason. Bad me; I'll not do that next time.