wpautop damages inline script

[opajaap]

This code:

$str = '
<script type="text/javascript">
alert( \'<div style="float:right; margin-right:6px;" >Edit</div><div style="float:right; margin-right:6px;" >Delete</div>\' );
</script>';
echo $str;
echo '<br/>';
echo wpautop($str);

results in this output as seen in the page source:

<script type="text/javascript">
alert( '<div style="float:right; margin-right:6px;" >Edit</div><div style="float:right; margin-right:6px;" >Delete</div>' );
</script><br/><p><script type="text/javascript">
alert( '
<div style="float:right; margin-right:6px;" >Edit</div>
<div style="float:right; margin-right:6px;" >Delete</div>
<p>' );
</script></p>

The wpautop filter adds <p> twice and </p> once; adds linebreaks and hence a js error: SyntaxError: unterminated string literal

To my opinion, wpautop should NEVER change a byte between <script> and </script>; neither should the script tag be wrapped in a p tag.
Wrapping the code in a [CDATA[ ]] block makes no difference.

This behaviour is noticed for years and is still present at version 4.4-alpha-34061

[miqrogroove]

Need to check this ticket for versioning and duplicates.