Closed Bug 495348 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Firefox takes the wrong charset

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

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

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: ggggggg73, Unassigned)

References

(
URL
)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

The server www.specialk.com (The cereals)
send the charset iso-8859-1 in its http header

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 00:38:31 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:45:02 GMT
ETag: "11a4-f08-7de0d380"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 3848
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

But the html source code tell the browser
to use utf-8:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />


... The problem is that Firefox use the iso-8859-1 from the http header
and discard the code in the html which tell to use utf-8. When displayed in non-utf8, the page display with bogus caracters.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to www.specialk.com, firefox will display the page as iso-8859-1
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
Page charset set to iso-8859-1 (took from the http header from the server)

Expected Results:  
Page charset set to utf-8. Internet Explorer doesn't have this bug.
This is invalid the server headers take precedent.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
verified invalid, it's a bug in IE that IE is using UTF-8 here
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.