saveDocument converts ©

I need some Mozilla help:

My extension, Launchy, gives the user the ability to view the source of a webpage in an editor of the users choice. To do this I use the saveDocument function. But when I do this, HTML entities like fx © gets converted into a real copyright char.

I thought that if I just use the ENCODE_FLAGS_RAW flag it would work. But it doesn't seems to work.

My code:
const nsIWBP = Components.interfaces.nsIWebBrowserPersist;
var persist = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/embedding/browser/nsWebBrowserPersist;1"].createInstance(nsIWBP);
persist.persistFlags = nsIWBP.PERSIST_FLAGS_FROM_CACHE | nsIWBP.PERSIST_FLAGS_NO_CONVERSION | nsIWBP.PERSIST_FLAGS_REPLACE_EXISTING_FILES | nsIWBP.PERSIST_FLAGS_NO_BASE_TAG_MODIFICATIONS | nsIWBP.PERSIST_FLAGS_DONT_FIXUP_LINKS | nsIWBP.FLAGS_DONT_CHANGE_FILENAMES;
var encodingFlags = nsIWBP.ENCODE_FLAGS_RAW;
persist.saveDocument(doc, f, null, null, encodingFlags, 0);

Can anybody help? If you can, please can leave a comment here or add a comment to the bug report here.

You can test it yourself if you install my Launchy extension and then right click on a gemal.dk page and say Launchy -> View Source in blabla. Then the © symbol at the end of the source will be converted, which it shouldn't.

3 Comments

It seems that the solution is:
var encodingFlags = nsIWBP.ENCODE_FLAGS_RAW | nsIWBP.ENCODE_FLAGS_ENCODE_W3C_ENTITIES;

Comment by Henrik Gemal at September 13, 2004 09:44 PM | Permalink

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