[Bug 259650] [NEW] firefox3 displays cyrillic characters instead of latin

[Fredrik Fall]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

A somewhat cryptic display bug. On some web pages containing english
text shown with regular latin characters, certain text is instead
displayed with cyrillic characters. If I look up the page source, it
contains regular english text, and all page properties are set for
displaying english text. On most pages this bug does not trigger, and
the page is displayed as intended.

Example

One page displayed in this way is http://www.phpundercontrol.org/about.html
Which is displayed in this way:  http://people.fulkod.net/fredrik/cyrillic.png

I've also attached the same screenshot to this posting.

Following contains output from the commandline:

>locale
LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

>lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release:	8.04

(It's the amd64-arch)

>apt-cache policy firefox-3.0
firefox-3.0:
  Installerad: 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
  Kandidat: 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
  Versionstabell:
 *** 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages


I know the description is quite a vague but I would be happy to answer any further questions, feel free to contact me.

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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firefox3 displays cyrillic characters instead of latin
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