105689 - Charset meta tag is not given when converter is not involved for "Save As Charset"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[ji]

****Observed with 10/17 0.9.4 builds***

When converter is not involved for "Save As Charset", charset meta tag is not
given to a page which doesn't have charset meta tag originally.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.yahoo.co.jp, or http://www.kinokuniya.co.jp. Neither of them
has charset meta tag.
2. Select File | Edit Page 
3. Select File | Save As Charset to save it in its original encoding. So
converter is not used here.
4. Open the saved page in a text editor, you can see the saved page still
doesn't have charset meta tag. It will be good to add charset meta tag to the
original document in this case since the name of the menu (Save As Charset) is
very likely to lead the user to think this way.

Comment 1

[Yuying Long]

There is a tricky - try this:

Follow by your step 3:
a. File | Save As Charset, to bring up a dialog, and the charset will highlight
as one charset (e.g. euc-jp for yahoo-japan and x-jis for kinokuniya ...etc.)
b. Select charset to something else other than the one is hightlight in step a.
c. Then go back to the charset which is correctly, see x-jis for kinokuniya...etc.
d. Then save the file.
f. Open the file again though textedit or composer, then you will find the file
will has the meta-charset.

If my case is work for you, I'd like to say it's a dug of an old bug 56200.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixing bug 331991 might fix this.

Comment 3

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

This is composer issue, so I change to SeaMonkey. But this may be fixed by bug 331991...

Comment 4

[Phoenix]

WORKSFORME
Also, there is no such menu item as "Save As Charset", I tried both "Save As" and "Save and Change Character Encoding", in both cases meta tag with encoding was present.
Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20111017 Firefox/10.0a1 SeaMonkey/2.7a1

Comment 5

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

RESO WFM based on comment #4. Composer is not my forte.