[webkit-qt] toUpperCase() bug in Qt5.1 RC

[Bruning Michael]

Hi Eike,

sorry, hit "Send" to early...
On Thursday, 2nd July 2013 at 09:33, Eike Rethmeier wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I found an JavaScript bug in the toUpperCase() function in Qt5.1 Release Candidate. That bug was not in Qt5.1 Beta.

Thanks for posting this, this may in fact be a blocking issue.

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>That’s how it should behave (call and result), tested with Qt5.1 Beta and former versions (and Chrome and Firefox)
> "Hello123 World!".toUpperCase()
> "HELLO123 WORLD!"
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> That’s how it behaves with Qt5.1 Release Candidate in Win7 (VS2012 build):
> "Hello123 World!".toUpperCase()
> "HELLO???WORLD"
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> Funny thing is, I do not visually see these strange characters  betwenn HELLO and WORLD in the inspector, I only see them when I copy the string from the inspector and paste them into this Email. In the inspector it looks like 4 spaces between HELLO and WORLD. In WinXP it looks like this in the inspector:
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> Qt5.1 Release Candidate in WinXP (VS2012 build):
> "Hello123 World!".toUpperCase()
> "HELLOWORLD
"
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> The real problem is, that toUpperCase() is also used by a bunch of libraries like jQuery, knockout etc. So this is a severe problem.
> Where can I post this bug to make sure that it is fixed in the Final Release?
I went ahead and created a bugreport here: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-32159

I'll investigate and try to reproduce on other systems as well.
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> Thanks,
> Eike

Best regards,
Michael

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