Comment 13 for bug 228988

Dear Alex'
Please take my e-mail address from Bug Reporting List. I am already requested for UN subscribing Bug Reporting forum. Thanks. Sincerely, ben
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From: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
>
> OK, lets give it a try, taking small steps. Maybe that works better.
>
> When I first visit http://atilf.atilf.fr/tlf.htm in firefox 3 I get a
> page the is properly displayed. ffox automatically detected windows
> 1252. Is that the wrong encoding? the accents look fine.
>
> Now i go some site and and set UTF-8 explicitly (Menu -> View ->
> Character Encoding -> UTF-8); then visit the site above and all works
> fine.
>
> Now I visit that site, clear the location bar, hit enter ... nothing
> happens -> the browser is still on that page - its not blank or
> anything, so its obvious that the user is _still_ on that page. Now i
> set it to UTF-8 and the page breaks. Reloading that page will remember
> your decision to mark it as UTF-8 before. I don't see whats wrong
> about this.
>
> Reopening the ffox 3 part.
>
> affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
> status incomplete
>
> If there is an issue at all it will definitly not be fixed in ffox 2
> release series ...
>
> affects ubuntu/firefox
> status wontfix
>
> - Alexander
>
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> Firefox can display a page with the wrong encoding
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228988
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