Re: Strange Browser Behavior

From: Tom Gewecke (tom@bluesky.org)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2007 - 11:17:35 CST


On Jan 8, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Simon Montagu wrote:

> The process for translating a UTF-32 codepoint into a UTF-16 surrogate
> pair, without first checking whether the UTF-32 codepoint is within
> the legal range:
>
> (0x230DBD - 0x10000) / 0x400 + 0xD800 = 0xE083
> (0x230DBD - 0x10000) % 0x400 + 0xDC00 = 0xDDBD
>
> On Windows Firefox 2 this is what I see on your test page. I'm not
> sure why the sequence is preceded by a BOM for you.
>
> For the record, the bug of not checking the original value was fixed
> some time ago, and on a nightly build of Firefox I see a single U+FFFD
> character.
>
>

Thanks much to everyone who responded! The BOM is an error generated
when I saved the text. Normally Mac apps don't add that for UTF-8, but
I happened to use one that does.

I guess the latest regular Mac Firefox release, 2.0.0.1, has not got
the fix yet.



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