Bug 75210 - URL hover does not decode %27 (')
Summary: URL hover does not decode %27 (')
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebKit Misc. (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: All All
: P2 Trivial
Assignee: Nobody
URL: http://crbug.com/108589
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-12-25 13:42 PST by Jerome Leclanche
Modified: 2012-03-06 11:30 PST (History)
4 users (show)

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Chrome/Safari vs Firefox/Camino (55.82 KB, image/png)
2011-12-26 01:08 PST, Mehmet 		no flags Details
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Description Jerome Leclanche 2011-12-25 13:42:22 PST 
Upstreamed from http://crbug.com/108589

In chromium, or Safari 5.1.2
1. Get an url with an apostrophe in it.
2. Hover the url in an href
3. Shows %27

See attachment:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/attachmentText?id=108589&aid=1085890004000&name=crbug-108589.html&token=u634dtkPaICBybgotCs6x7o_OOg%3A1324849186126
Comment 1 Alexey Proskuryakov 2011-12-25 19:18:33 PST 
What makes this a bug? Do other browsers behave differently?
Comment 2 Jerome Leclanche 2011-12-26 00:20:27 PST 
Other common characters are decoded properly, eg ?=+-|()[] etc
Comment 3 Mehmet 2011-12-26 01:08:32 PST 
Created attachment 120536 [details]
Chrome/Safari vs Firefox/Camino

Please find attached a screenshot, which shows the different behavior between Safari/Chrome and Firefox/Camino.
Comment 4 Alexey Proskuryakov 2011-12-26 17:37:52 PST 
What does IE do?
Comment 5 Dominic Cooney 2011-12-26 20:17:27 PST 
(In reply to comment #4)
> What does IE do?

IE 9 does not decode the apostrophe, it displays %27 like Chrome and Safari.
Comment 6 Dominic Cooney 2011-12-26 20:20:30 PST 
(In reply to comment #1)
> What makes this a bug?

I suppose it is more readable to decode the apostrophe, particularly for languages which use apostrophes more than, say, English (like French.) Would you consider displaying %65 instead of 'e' acc%65ptabl%65, for %65xampl%65?