[Bug 1093107] Re: Konqueror/KHTML displays spurious characters on www.ubuntu.com

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On 2012-06-25T14:34:36+00:00 Graeme Hewson wrote:

Created attachment 72127
Screenshot of http://www.ubuntu.com/download

On various pages in ubuntu.com, such as http://www.ubuntu.com/download,
spurious characters are displayed. See attachment, which shows, for
instance "Ubuntu Desktop â-o", where "-o" is superscript.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop shows, as another example, "â⁻¢
How to run Ubuntu from a CD or USB stick â⁻o".

Rekonq and Firefox don't display these spurious characters.

The characters are not in the HTML source code. If text is selected with
the mouse, they are not contained in the clipboard. They are displayed
whether the rendering engine is KHTML or WebKit. View / Set Encoding is
Default. Changing the encoding to something else doesn't alter the
characters.

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On 2012-06-25T17:40:24+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:

Here with WebKit rendering engine, those characters are rendered similar
to a '>' char. It probably is specified in some of the CSS files.

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On 2012-08-15T08:21:22+00:00 Graeme Hewson wrote:

Problem has gone. I guess it was the CSS files, then, as Christoph Feck
suggested.

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On 2012-08-15T08:50:36+00:00 Graeme Hewson wrote:

However, a little while after I posted my previous comment, Konqueror
crashed. After restarting it, another rendering problem I was
experiencing disappeared (temporarily), and this problem reappeared. Re-
opening ticket.

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On 2012-08-15T13:37:34+00:00 Graeme Hewson wrote:

I can reproduce the problem after renaming
~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc and ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/, so all
settings are the default.

Problem is only present with KHTML. However, if browser engine config is
changed from KHTML to WebKit, spurious characters are still displayed
after page refresh; it's necessary to start a new instance of Konqueror
before WebKit displays page correctly.

Currently using Konqueror 4.8.5.

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