Firefox makes bad character encoding guesses

[Jonas Olson]

On web pages that doesn't specify their encoding, Firefox has begun making bad guesses where it made previously made better ones.

For example, when viewing <http://www.angelfire.com/nt2/tidsskrift/stickint.html>, Firefox uses UTF-8, which results in a lot of "�". Manually switching to ISO-8859-1 makes the page look fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: firefox 6.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 21 22:50:27 2011
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 6.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
 flashplugin-installer 10.3.183.4ubuntu0.11.04.1
 adobe-flashplugin N/A
 icedtea-plugin 1.1.1-0ubuntu1~11.04.1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=sv_SE:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Jonas,

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported? Please let us know if you do.

If we do not hear from you this bug report will expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Jonas Olson (jolson)]

Ah, the "time heals all wounds" bug-fixing method. :-)

Indeed, things do work fine now, thank you!

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thanks for your reply. Will close by marking "Invalid" as this report was never confirmed by another user.