Issue 61328 in chromium: "ß" is no longer a substitute for "ss"

[chro...@googlecode.com]

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Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 Area-Undefined

New issue 61328 by sebh...@googlemail.com: "ß" is no longer a substitute
for "ss"
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=61328

Chrome Version : 7.0.517.41
URLs (if applicable) : everything with a "ß" in it (like http://straße.de/ )
Other browsers tested:
Safari 4: FAIL
Firefox 3.x: FAIL
IE 7: FAIL
IE 8: FAIL

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open a URL which contains a "ß" in it
2. Observe that browser changes "ß" to "ss"
3. Browsers opens changed URL

What is the expected result?
According to RFC 5892 "ß" is an allowed character since august 2010 so that
any page containing a "ß" should be treated differently to a page that
contains "ss" instead of "ß". Therefore a browser should open the requested
URL and do not change it by replacing all occurrences of "ß" with "ss".

What happens instead?
Browsers change every occurrence of "ß" to "ss".

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

- Link to RFC 5892: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5892/

- The letter "ß" is also called Eszett or as noted in the RFC "LATIN SMALL
LETTER SHARP S"

- Denic (http://denic.de/ manager of the .de TLD) just allowed new domains
to be registered with a "ß" in it which was previously not allowed. See
http://www.denic.de/en/domains/internationalized-domain-names/sharp-s.html?cHash=3486f26050

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Updates:
Status: Untriaged
Labels: -Area-Undefined Area-Internals Internals-Network

Comment #1 on issue 61328 by pe...@chromium.org: "ß" is no longer a

substitute for "ss"
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=61328

Confirmed with 8.0.552.23(dev).

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Cc: bre...@chromium.org js...@chromium.org pkast...@chromium.org

Comment #2 on issue 61328 by w...@chromium.org: "ß" is no longer a

substitute for "ss"
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=61328

brettw,jshin,pkasting: could you triage this bug? Who should work on this?
Thanks.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Assigned
Owner: bre...@chromium.org
Cc: -bre...@chromium.org -pkast...@chromium.org

Comment #3 on issue 61328 by pkas...@chromium.org: "ß" is no longer a

substitute for "ss"
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=61328

I'm gonna say Brett -- it's definitely not mine.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #7 on issue 61328 by ryazanov: "ß" is no longer a substitute
for "ss"
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=61328

Issue 63343 has been merged into this issue.

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Comment #9 on issue 61328 by goo...@sanz-online.de: "ß" is no longer a

substitute for "ss"
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=61328

ICU 4.6 is out there. When will Chrome upgrade to it?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #12 on issue 61328 by goo...@sanz-online.de: "ß" is no longer a

substitute for "ss"
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=61328

UTS46 *does* work with ".de" if you run the UTS 46 algorithm
in "non-transitional mode".

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Comment #15 on issue 61328 by LEOXD.m...@gmail.com: "ß" is no longer a

substitute for "ss"
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=61328

Any progress on this?

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Comment #17 on issue 61328 by sebh...@gmail.com: "ß" is no longer a

substitute for "ss"
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=61328

The registrars for .fr[0] and .be[1] both enabled support for IDN 2008
domain names. Both registrars do not require to register both domain names
(with "ß" _and_ "ss"). Therefore transitional mode won't work for those
TLDs either.
There is also a Firefox bug[2] which has additional links to a mailing list
discussion about this problem.

[0]: https://www.afnic.fr/en/products-and-services/idns.html
[1]: http://www.dns.be/en/idn
[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479520

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Comment #18 on issue 61328 by i...@opc-gaming.com: "ß" is no longer a

substitute for "ss"
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=61328

Or are 60 million German not enough to eliminate this bug? A small example
in German the right Word for soccer is Fußball and not Fussball. So this is
not an Small bug when the Correct Language is not Supportet. The issue is
from 2010 and now we are on 2013 ....

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Updates:
Cc: aba...@chromium.org jsc...@chromium.org

Comment #19 on issue 61328 by js...@chromium.org: "ß" is no longer a

substitute for "ss"
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=61328

Issue 114375 has been merged into this issue.