[Bug 206884] Re: Firefox uses the wrong display encoding

André Pirard A.Pirard at ulg.ac.be
Sat May 10 14:48:37 UTC 2008


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Considering that the more I write about this problem the less it's 
understood, I have introduced a new Bug #228988 where everything has 
been rewritten from scratch.
PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY, it's the last time I write, I have lost enough 
time.
I set it to "confirmed", please correct statuses of both as needed ---->>>
For obvious reasons, make this bug a duplicate of Bug #228988 rather 
than the opposite.
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On 05/09/2008 07:58 PM,  John Vivirito wrote :
> Please read the following link about bug states before marking as confirmed.
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs/States?highlight=(mozilla)
> marking as incomplete
>   
I know why I do that. Some bugs I introduced would have been erased by a 
timeout threat because nobody came to set "confirmed" well after I 
provided the information they asked.
You probably noticed that I'm willing to cooperate but I hate losing my 
time.

Could you explain why this bug was reset to incomplete and then to 
complete again without any additional data being added?

On 05/10/2008 02:38 AM,  Alexander Sack wrote :
> i can confirm that the semantic of the character encoding menu could be
> improved.
>   
I didn't really speak of a menu (which?) and its semantic of a character 
encoding.

Did anyone try the procedure I wrote twice?
I suppose that trying is why I was asked to write it a second time.
What are your conclusions?
Firefox should display the page using the wrong encoding.
> However, unless someone comes up with a good idea, i doubt that this
> will be fixable for 3.0.
>   
I have the feeling that the fix is amazingly simple for both 2 and 3.
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Firefox uses the wrong display encoding
> + fuzzy/confusing firefox View -> Character encoding menu semantics
>   
The previous title was the correct one.
The practical, most important problem is #1.
The new title reflects Problem #2, the theory of specifying which 
encoding a page uses, especially default encoding.
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided => Low
>        Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
>   
If the bug occurs as often as I have seen it occur, it is of very high 
importance.
(especially if easy to fix)
It's been pesting me for months before I made this analysis.
Of course, it occurs only to those needing the accented characters of 
ISO88859-1.
(If you search the Web for discussions of this, please search in French).

Thanks for your attention and for your Open devotion.

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fuzzy/confusing firefox View -> Character encoding menu semantics
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