Closed Bug 291949 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Charset specification in META http-equiv tag "Content-Type" should have precedence over HTTP header specification

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 238488

People

(Reporter: bugs_mozilla_2q1889, Assigned: bugzilla)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050422 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050422 Firefox/1.0.3

The charset definition within a HTML page should have precedence over general
HTTP header specifications of the charset. Try the above URL. Even with UTF-8
set as standard in Firefox, it still switches to ISO8859-1 although the META tag
inside the HTML document's header says "UTF-8".

Reproducible: Always
Ok, I have fixed the problem at that URL by creating a .htaccess file that
prevents Apache from setting the charset encoding. But the problem itself still
exists.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 238488 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 238488 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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