[feisty] Character set of CSS files should default to that of the referencing document

[Bryan Donlan]

Binary package hint: konqueror

With konqueror version 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu14, the unicode content: directives in the 'gyou' class elements at http://nihongoresources.com/downloads/pdict/pdict.xml are rendered as if they were ISO-8859-1, while the rest of the document is UTF-8. This seems to be caused by the lack of a character set declaration on the CSS file, http://nihongoresources.com/downloads/pdict/pdict.css, in the response headers. In these cases, a more reasonable default would seem to be to default to the referencing document's character set, rather than using the locale default.

[Bryan Donlan (bdonlan)]

Please note that I have contacted the webmaster in question, so the CSS file may soon have the appropriate charset declaration added to the headers. Nevertheless, I believe this default should be changed.

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

Thanks for your report. If I have understood this is a website problem of the CSS file. However you would change Konqueror default settings for CSS referencing to document character set. Is correct?

[Bryan Donlan (bdonlan)]

Yes, that's right. Choosing the character set of the document seems like it'd be a much more sensible default than the locale default charset, particularly when the document /does/ declare a character set. Admittedly, very few CSS files have content in non-ASCII charsets...

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

Thanks for your suggestion to improve Kubuntu. In my opinion it may be a good idea. However, the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. <http://www.ubuntu.com/community/forums/> might be a good start. Thanks.