257084 - Chinese character shown on a particular page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Hermann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

I noticed at some pages chinese characters.

Settings are
fonts = Westlich (Windows-1252)
default fonts  = Westlich (Windows-1252) and (ISO-8859-1)

1. Switching from chinese to Western the black rhombus with question mark
changes to £ as it should.

2. I have autodetect set to universal, but apparently it doesn´t work all the time.

I build a new profile but same result. 
Cleared Cash again same result. 
Reinstalled Mozilla completely again same result.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
There is nothing to do. The problem comes up all the time at there particular page.
Actual Results:  
Characters will shown wrong

Expected Results:  
As on the previous page of example showing the correct characters

If the related link doesnt show the problem I attach a link where you can see a
screen shot of that page.

www.gomfoto.de/Chinese.jpg

see Bugzilla Bug 170229 which covers quite the same years ago.

Comment 1

[Hermann]

Please find attached another example of chinese character into a Western coded page.

www.gomfoto.de/Chinese2.jpg

Comment 2

[Stewart Gordon]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041123

It seems to happen that certain pages that have no character encoding specified
cause the Chinese Simplified encoding to be triggered.  The Chinese character
tends to swallow two to four characters, not just the non-ASCII character that
was intended.  Is this what this bug is about?

My thought is that it should try first to resolve it to an encoding that's
actually in the Active Character Encodings list.

The given URL is defunct - replacing.

Comment 3

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Comment 4

[Stewart Gordon]

I saw it again the other day, but forget where....

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

worksforme at the given URL with linux seamonkey trunk build 2005100701
(is the bug still supposed to occur with that page?)

==> intl

Comment 6

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

The site has changed.