iso-8859-1 and/or utf-8 character not decoded properly

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

Binary package hint: kdebase-kde4

When I view this page:

http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/527

The non-ascii char in the last name of the author "Michal Rjaško" appears as a black diamond with a question mark in it. If I do "View -> View Document Information" then the resulting dialog box says "Document encoding: UTF-8" *and* says "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1". Inspecting the headers with 'wget --save-headers' shows that the server is indeed specifying "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1". Even more interesting, the "View -> Set Encoding" option currently shows the radio button labelled "Western European -> Autodetect". If I change that radio button to "Western European -> ISO-8859-1" then the author's name renders correctly. Also if I change that radio button to "Unicode -> UTF-8" then it also renders correctly. I think the auto-detection algorithm could use some work. ;-)

$ apt-cache policy konqueror-kde4
konqueror-kde4:
  Installed: 4:4.0.3-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 4:4.0.3-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 4:4.0.3-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

KDE 4.0.x is very old. I tested this with KDE 4.2 and I cannot reproduce the error.

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (zooko)]

Agreed -- this is fixed now that I upgraded to konqueror 4.2.0 (from Ubuntu Jaunty pre-release).