Ubuntu
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Special chars in UTF-8 are only rendered correctly if document ends with .xhtml

Bug #919195 reported by Jendrik Seipp on 2012-01-20

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The following UTF-8 document is rendered correctly in Firefox 9.0.1 safe-mode if the filename ends with .xhtml, but not if it ends with .html:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<body>
<p>Les garçons sont à l'école.</p>
</body></html>

Chromium 15 renders both versions correctly, i.e. special chars are correctly displayed.

Correct: Les garçons sont à l'école.
Incorrect: Les garÃ§ons sont Ã l'Ã©cole.

Attached are the two versions (.html and .xhtml) of the document.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: firefox 9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC1: jendrik 1953 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC0: jendrik 1953 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20111228084940
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfbcf8000 irq 43'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC1200'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0888,102802c9,00100101'
   Controls : 38
   Simple ctrls : 21
Card1.Amixer.info:
Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfbefc000 irq 44'
   Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100000'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [on]
Channel: release
Date: Fri Jan 20 14:01:56 2012
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.2.1 dev eth0 proto static
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.2.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.101 metric 1
IwConfig:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=9.0.1/20111228084940 (Running)
RfKill:

RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (98 days ago)
WifiSyslog:

dmi.bios.date: 12/21/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.1.4
dmi.board.name: 0R849J
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.1.4:bd12/21/2009:svnDellInc.:pnStudioXPS435MT:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0R849J:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Studio XPS 435MT
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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Revision history for this message

Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp) wrote on 2012-01-20:

firefox-utf8.html Edit (266 bytes, text/html)
AlsaDevices.txt Edit (763 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
AplayDevices.txt Edit (379 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ArecordDevices.txt Edit (392 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootDmesg.txt Edit (60.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Amixer.values.txt Edit (4.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.2.txt Edit (13.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card1.Codecs.codec.0.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Extensions.txt Edit (783 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IpAddr.txt Edit (540 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Locales.txt Edit (389 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (23.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciMultimedia.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciNetwork.txt Edit (650 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Plugins.txt Edit (736 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Prefs.txt Edit (4.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (6.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (138 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PulseSinks.txt Edit (5.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PulseSources.txt Edit (5.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Themes.txt Edit (129 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Revision history for this message

Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp) wrote on 2012-01-20:

firefox-utf8.xhtml Edit (266 bytes, application/xhtml+xml)

Revision history for this message

Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp) wrote on 2012-01-20:

firefox-utf8.html Edit (266 bytes, text/html)

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