[Bug 228988] Re: Firefox can display a page with the wrong encoding

[Alexander Sack]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 02:23:29PM -0000, André Pirard wrote:
> On 2008-05-16 14:28,  Alexander Sack wrote :
> > CP1252 displays properly. Still don't understand what is wrong about
> > that?
> OK, OK. I'll explain again and again then.
> If Thunderbird displays unidentified pages with the wrong codepage, it 
> is a problem.
> It's not because the CP1252 cases _you_ have seen produced no display 
> difference that it is not a problem, you may look at my picture and see 
> that the UTF-8 case _is_ a visible problem.

This UTF-8 example is a non-issue, because you select it manually
in the menu. If you do this, you are left alone and changing the
semantic to not remember your manualy selection on next visit is not
going to be fixed.


> Unless, you looked at an ASCII-only display, need I say.
> 
> May I get a reply to my question?
> May I know what is incomplete in this report?
> Do you need anything else?
> 

This is not a bug. Its an explicit design decision to remember that
you _manually_ select the encoding for a site. 

The auto detection does the correct thing in your example; so to get
this confirmed, provide an example where the auto-detection is broken.

 status wontfix
 title "firefox should forget manually selected page-encoding"


 - Alexander

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Firefox can display a page with the wrong encoding
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