Regression in winebrowser found and identified

[Pavel Troller]

Hi!
  Today we've found that winebrowser gets invalid URL consisting of many
question marks instead of correct URL, in at least two cases:
  1) Attempt to buy a game in Steam (yes, we are regularly doing that)
  2) Trying to buy a program called CPT-Master from 3am systems, free demo
which shows the problem when "Buy now" button is pressed in its welcome
screen, can be downloaded at
http://www.3amsystems.com/products/CPT-Master.exe

The following commit has been identified as making the regression:

e547cf7043e36fecfe5e23d1d6f93a9c5ba89c46 is first bad commit
commit e547cf7043e36fecfe5e23d1d6f93a9c5ba89c46
Author: Hans Leidekker <hans(a)it.vu.nl>
Date:   Sun Apr 6 14:44:31 2008 +0200

    winebrowser: Convert to Unicode.

:040000 040000 4f3a034b18392677fc0dfd1ed6df7fefe843a10e 0ab8603a13e836a0b91dd2f146df8da59f7e79e4 M      programs

It really looks related to the problem which I'm reporting :-).
BTW, my system is NOT running in Unicode. Maybe is it related ? I hope it is
not yet mandatory. I'm using iso-8859-2 encoding, which works much better
in my normal working environment.

Please do your best to fix it before 1.0, I feel it really bad and I think
that many programs may be affected by it.

Should I submit a bug too ?

With regards, Pavel Troller

[Hans Leidekker]

On Saturday 07 June 2008 10:25:39 Pavel Troller wrote:
> BTW, my system is NOT running in Unicode. Maybe is it related ? I hope it is
> not yet mandatory. I'm using iso-8859-2 encoding, which works much better
> in my normal working environment.

If the URL contains characters outside iso-8859-2 that may be the problem, yes.
Is it fixed when you switch to utf8?

Please file a bug and attach a +winebrowser trace.

 -Hans

[Pavel Troller]

> On Saturday 07 June 2008 10:25:39 Pavel Troller wrote:
> > BTW, my system is NOT running in Unicode. Maybe is it related ? I hope it is
> > not yet mandatory. I'm using iso-8859-2 encoding, which works much better
> > in my normal working environment.
>
> If the URL contains characters outside iso-8859-2 that may be the problem, yes.
> Is it fixed when you switch to utf8?

Hi!
  1) The URLs don't contain any special characters. They even don't need 8859-2,
US-ASCII should be enough for them :-).
  2) Switching to utf-8 caused that chinese characters and placeholders
(boxes with hex value of the character) were displayed instead of question
marks, and it didn't work either, of course.
> Please file a bug and attach a +winebrowser trace.

Done. There are two traces, one with default setting and the other with
LC_ALL=cs_CZ.UTF-8.
> -Hans

With regards, Pavel Troller