nsresult
nsDefaultURIFixup::ConvertFileToStringURI(const nsACString& aIn,
                                          nsCString& aResult)
{
  bool attemptFixup = false;

#if defined(XP_WIN)
  // Check for \ in the url-string or just a drive (PC)
  if (aIn.Contains('\\') ||
      (aIn.Length() == 2 && (aIn.Last() == ':' || aIn.Last() == '|'))) {
    attemptFixup = true;
  }
#elif defined(XP_UNIX)
  // Check if it starts with / (UNIX)
  if (aIn.First() == '/') {
    attemptFixup = true;
  }
#else
  // Do nothing (All others for now)
#endif

  if (attemptFixup) {
    // Test if this is a valid path by trying to create a local file
    // object. The URL of that is returned if successful.

    // NOTE: Please be sure to check that the call to NS_NewLocalFile
    //       rejects bad file paths when using this code on a new
    //       platform.

    nsCOMPtr<nsIFile> filePath;
    nsresult rv;

    // this is not the real fix but a temporary fix
    // in order to really fix the problem, we need to change the
    // nsICmdLineService interface to use wstring to pass paramenters
    // instead of string since path name and other argument could be
    // in non ascii.(see bug 87127) Since it is too risky to make interface
    // change right now, we decide not to do so now.
    // Therefore, the aIn we receive here maybe already in damage form
    // (e.g. treat every bytes as ISO-8859-1 and cast up to char16_t
    //  while the real data could be in file system charset )
    // we choice the following logic which will work for most of the case.
    // Case will still failed only if it meet ALL the following condiction:
    //    1. running on CJK, Russian, or Greek system, and
    //    2. user type it from URL bar
    //    3. the file name contains character in the range of
    //       U+00A1-U+00FF but encode as different code point in file
    //       system charset (e.g. ACP on window)- this is very rare case
    // We should remove this logic and convert to File system charset here
    // once we change nsICmdLineService to use wstring and ensure
    // all the Unicode data come in is correctly converted.
    // XXXbz nsICmdLineService doesn't hand back unicode, so in some cases
    // what we have is actually a "utf8" version of a "utf16" string that's
    // actually byte-expanded native-encoding data.  Someone upstream needs
    // to stop using AssignWithConversion and do things correctly.  See bug
    // 58866 for what happens if we remove this
    // PossiblyByteExpandedFileName check.
    NS_ConvertUTF8toUTF16 in(aIn);
    if (PossiblyByteExpandedFileName(in)) {
      // removes high byte
      rv = NS_NewNativeLocalFile(NS_LossyConvertUTF16toASCII(in), false,
                                 getter_AddRefs(filePath));
    } else {
      // input is unicode
      rv = NS_NewLocalFile(in, false, getter_AddRefs(filePath));
    }

    if (NS_SUCCEEDED(rv)) {
      NS_GetURLSpecFromFile(filePath, aResult);
      return NS_OK;
    }
  }

  return NS_ERROR_FAILURE;
}