332681 - character encoding menu is confusing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 185123

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

In the menu "View :: Character Encoding" I would expect to choose:

    EITHER Auto-detect OR a specific encoding

further I would expect FF to have a checkbox ticked next to ONE SINGLE ITEM which would be the one setting that is currently in use.

Today neither or these expectations are fulfilled. Questions:

1. Why is there alternatives like "Japanese", "Korean" and so on under the auto-detect sub-menu? Maybe this is obvious to hardcore mozilla techies but for the typical end-user is just makes no sense.

2. Suppose I have checked "View :: Char enc :: Unicode" and then selects "View :: Char enc :: Auto-detect :: Universal". Now suddenly both of these are checked, what does that mean? 

This menu is by no means intuitive.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 185123 ***