firefox3 displays cyrillic characters instead of latin

Bug #259650 reported by Fredrik Fall
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

A somewhat cryptic display bug. On some web pages containing english text shown with regular latin characters, certain text is instead displayed with cyrillic characters. If I look up the page source, it contains regular english text, and all page properties are set for displaying english text. On most pages this bug does not trigger, and the page is displayed as intended.

Example

One page displayed in this way is http://www.phpundercontrol.org/about.html
Which is displayed in this way: http://people.fulkod.net/fredrik/cyrillic.png

I've also attached the same screenshot to this posting.

Following contains output from the commandline:

>locale
LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

>lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

(It's the amd64-arch)

>apt-cache policy firefox-3.0
firefox-3.0:
  Installerad: 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
  Kandidat: 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
  Versionstabell:
 *** 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

I know the description is quite a vague but I would be happy to answer any further questions, feel free to contact me.

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Fredrik Fall (fredrik-fall-gmail) wrote :
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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Would you please have a look at bug #228988 and see if it fits your problem? Try these steps suggested there:

1) clear the said URL from history [any occurrence of the hostname in address bar dropdown]
2) open a new window or tag and do the following in it
3) set View|Character Encoding to UTF-8 (or anything but ISO889-1)
4) type that URL in the address bar and display page
5) the page displays using the wrong encoding (as the attachment, using UTF-8)
Repeat 1-5, setting ISO889-1 instead, and you get a correct display.

Thanks in advance.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
assignee: nobody → andreas-moog
status: New → Incomplete
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Fredrik Fall (fredrik-fall-gmail) wrote :

Thanks for directing me to #228988 as it seem somewhat related.
However, what I can understand from that bug report, the pages that were displayed wrong, lacked a proper set of character encoding. The page giving me problem (http://www.phpundercontrol.org/about.html) does indeed set char encoding using a meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Using the steps above I can reproduce the error, but I cannot get the page to show correctly by clearing history and choosing iso8859-1 in a new window.

As for #228988, it doesn't seem to have a happy ending to say the least :)
Is this rather an issue to report directly upstream to the firefox team at mozilla?

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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote :

Yes, this would be an issue to report upstream. Could you do that and point to the bugreport here?

Changed in firefox-3.0:
assignee: andreas-moog → nobody
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb) wrote :

Mozilla only supports latest versions of their browser (currently at v19). This problem is not reproducible any more.

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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