435635 - Wrong thousand separator on mozilla addons site

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 432847

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Localization, defect)

Description

[Kamil Páral]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; cs-CZ; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008050509 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; cs-CZ; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008050509 Firefox/3.0b5

On mozilla addons site, there is download count for each of the addon. In czech localization the separator is not showing correctly, there is only "unknown sign" (question mark). See the attached screenshot (it's highlighted in orange ellipse). I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and FF 3 Beta 5 (default from repositories). Maybe the localization was created using wrong character encoding.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
There should be a space as a thousands separator, which is correct for Czech language. Certainly not this unknown sign.

Comment 1

[Kamil Páral]

Attachment: wrong thousand separator

Comment 2

[Pavel Franc - Mozilla.cz]

The thousands separator is pull out from the PHP localeconv() function and it was introduced in bug 419639. The sk locale has the same problem.

Comment 3

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Attachment: looks alright to me

Attaching what it looks like for me - essentially just a space.  It looks like it's printing a character that's not available in your charset or something?  Have either of you experienced this before?

Comment 4

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Yes, this is/was bug 432847. It's a special "UTF-8 space" character.

It wfm too.

Comment 5

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Does changing your default font resolve the problem? Maybe it doesn't support the character correctly. (A workaround on our side would certainly be replacing this by an actual space, but this may defeat almost the purpose of using localeconv() in the first place).

Comment 6

[Kamil Páral]

Attachment: new page look

The page has changed, it looks a little different now. It seems to be fixed. I can't test what was the problem though. But the source of the these kind of problems is very often that people on Windows have default charset set to Windows-xxxx, but people on Linux have default charset set to UTF-8.

Comment 7

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

stephend: can you give us a look from a windows box?

Comment 8

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Attachment: Screenshot of Windows XP / Firefox 3.01

I just see a space character too...

Comment 9

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks Stephen.  I guess we fixed this with another bug sometime.  If anyone sees it reappear feel free to reopen.

Comment 10

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Thanks Stephen.  I guess we fixed this with another bug sometime.

Argh, I didn't realize the bug was so old. In that case, of course it's a dupe of bug 432847, as I said in comment 4.

Comment 11

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup