firefox3 displays cyrillic characters instead of latin
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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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://
Which is displayed in this way: http://
I've also attached the same screenshot to this posting.
Following contains output from the commandline:
>locale
LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=
LC_NUMERIC=
LC_TIME=
LC_COLLATE=
LC_MONETARY=
LC_MESSAGES=
LC_PAPER=
LC_NAME=
LC_ADDRESS=
LC_TELEPHONE=
LC_MEASUREMENT=
LC_IDENTIFICATI
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+
Kandidat: 3.0.1+build1+
Versionstabell:
*** 3.0.1+build1+
500 http://
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
3.
500 http://
I know the description is quite a vague but I would be happy to answer any further questions, feel free to contact me.
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.