Comment 60 for bug 228988

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André Pirard (a.pirard) wrote : Re: [Bug 228988] Re: Firefox can display a page with the wrong encoding

> In addition, this bug is only affecting one person. That's why you
> should give another URL to test.

How do you know? How many persons did you ask?

I asked 10 friends to test that URL.
6 shuddered. I told you that's what people usually do (only those who
see characters to shudder at).
4 answered.
1 reported the same problem.
1 reported that the code page is sometimes 8859-1 and sometimes 1521,
which is the same bug, but invisibly.
Furthermore, Alexander Sack investigated and reported the same problem.
Furthermore I see ThiloPfennig and Mante reporting problems that
have not been investigated.
Furthermore, think: the bug does not affect a person but a system and I
have 4 different ones affected.

That makes 7 to 9 cases, not counting the shrugging.
Why do you say only one?

As I am a thinking person, I installed a fresh Ubuntu to make the test
and the bug was there.
And I made the test in a blank Firefox 3.6.11 configuration and the bug
was there.

Please stop keeping to ask more URLs and start thinking that it's
useless because there is a difference on your system that makes display
that page differently than on all of mine.
And remember that I said from the start that the bug is usually random
to the same person.
That's why I presented the atlif test which is not or less random.
One probably needs to look at the code to understand why.

I had made a new case because they made the old one a mess.
You made this one even more messy.

Please return the bug to confirmed status, there was no reason to change
that because there is is enough proof.