tlug: wacky characters

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Gushee <matt@example.com> writes:

    Matt> Dave writes:
    >> Sometimes when i'm cruising around on the net, and i type into
    >> a form (for example on the Yahoo! search engine), and then i
    >> hit enter, all this weird text gets added to whatever I've
    >> typed in. It looks like this:
    >> %FC%B3%3F%3F%BD%B4%FD%A8%3C%B3%3F%B9%FC%BA%3F%3F%3F%B4%FD%... etc... etc...
    >> So, in the case of Yahoo, it comes back with a response saying:
    >> Search for "Linux%FC%B3%3F%3F%BD%B4%FD%A.... not found"

    Matt> It's a Netscape-on-Linux issue. Or possibly a
    Matt> Netscape-on-RedHat-Linux issue. Perhaps someone better
    Matt> versed in internationalization issues can explain *why* it's
    Matt> happening,

Netscape-on-Linux-glibc, maybe.  I don't think it has anything to do
with internationalization, except that that does look like HTTP-
encoded Japanese so it maybe only happens to people who read multibyte
languages.  My guess is that whatever they're using for Motif has a
fail-to-clear-buffer-before-(re)using bug.  Or maybe they're just
forgetting to write the '\0' at the end of the string.

It's very much present in 4.5b1, except that (English) searches
succeed.  What fails is writing filenames....  Abunai-ze!

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