Comment 11 for bug 228988

On 2008-05-11 23:29, Alexander Sack wrote :
> in your description there is one point that makes your request that
> firefox should always do the right thing _without_ manual intervention
> void: you say "set View|Character Encoding to UTF-8" ... which is
> clearly a manual action and once you did that there is no real reason
> why firefox should not honour what you set. So, as long as you don't
> leave the no-manual action path everything will be fine. ONce you change
> it manual its ok to assume that you find that feature again to set it to
> auto again.
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Invalid
>
The first time that page (and some others) displayed using UTF-8 was
without "manual intervention" and on Windows if I recall well.
I set View | Encoding to ISO 8859-1 but it came back later again,
without manual intervention again, several times.
This is what persons who can read read at the beginning of my report.
I decided to open a bug because it had happened again.
Search Google with "Firefox UTF-8 8859 problème accents" you'll find
158000 hits

I have tried to reproduce the problem and I have patiently shown cases
where the wrong encoding was used, all that without manual intervention.

And now, you seem to make me a joker complaining with bad encoding
display after setting it wrong !!!!???

I just, additionally, showed that Firefox may use an incorrect encoding
because something wrong happened in the past, and I had no other way
than "manual intervention" to simulate that "someting wrong". Making all
the rest invalid because of that is strange logic.

You're ruining my work by making this report Invalid.

Furthermore, you changed someone else's report title to make it say say
what the author doesn't mean at all.
I have no problem at all understanding Character Encoding semantics,
probably because I worked with IETF task forces dealing with that.
So, if you, Mr Alexander Sack, find semantic problems, please open your
own bug report and have it say what you want to say. Let the other
people say what they want to say without trying to make believe they say
something else.
Please restore my bug title, and open your own with your title and write
what you want to say in it.

I wanted to spend my time to help Firefox but I'm loosing it.

I think iIt will be a long time before I write more than 5 lines in a
bug report.