Ubuntu
firefox package

  1. Bug #206884
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 206884

Revision history for this message
Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 206884] Re: Firefox uses the wrong display encoding

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:58:22AM -0000, André Pirard wrote:
> I've been watching what I was doing before the problem occurs.
> It was always when displaying that URL in a freshly opened window.
> I'm not sure about what in the previous environment was the cause.
> But now I know one way to demonstrate the problem.
>
> 1) clear the said URL from history.
> 2) open a new window or tag
> 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) you've got the wrong encoding displayed
>
> Obviously, the encoding used must not depend on anything that preexisted.
> I cannot say if this covers all cases.
>

 status incomplete

Could you please resummarize your current summary and reduce it to the
following points:

1. what is the behaviour you are seeing (one-two sentences)
2. what is the behaviour you are expecting (one-two sentences)
3. what are the steps to reproduce

Thanks,

 - Alexander