111217 - New tab opens with iso8859-1 charset

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[Stanislav Malyshev]

When I open new tab (e.g. by middle-clicking a link) from existing window with
windows-1251 charset, the page in the new tab is open in iso-8859-1 charset.
Even though the menu shows the charset is still windows-1251, it isn't. When I
click again on the charset menu entry, everything becomes OK.
To reproduce - go to the URL above, middle-click any "comment" link (provided
you have middle-click configured to open new tab), get tab in iso-8859-1. 
My browser version is Gecko/20011120 (0.9.6 release).

Comment 1

[Roy Yokoyama]

This could be related to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110512
Teruko: can you confirm this on other platforms as well? Thanks

Comment 2

[Stanislav Malyshev]

Yes, thats' probably because of the bug 110512. But here the situation is a bit
different - while on the startup we don't have information about what charset is
for that URL, when I click on the link there's a very high probability that the
link will be the same charset as the page I'm in (and indeed in 99% cases it
is). So here we have pretty good indication as to in which charset to open these
pages.

Also, if I open the same URL by any other means, in most cases the charset is
set properly. 

Comment 3

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I tested this in 11-21 Win32 and Linux build. I did not see the problem.

When I went to http://www.livejournal.com/users/nl, it was displayed as
ISO-8859-1 because Default charset is set it.  When I changed the default
charset as Western (Windows-1251), character coding was marked as Western
(Windows-1251).  Then, I click on comment link on the page, it was marked as
Westerm (Windows-1251). 

I marked this as dup of bug 110512 for now.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110512 ***

Comment 4

[Stanislav Malyshev]

That was exactly what I was saying - it opens with the default charset, while
mozilla has enough information to open it with the right charset - the same
charset as for the calling page. I do not want to change my default charset, I
want it to behave same way as if I clicked "open in new window" or just clicked
the link - to preserve the current charset.

Comment 5

[Teruko Kobayashi]

OK. Roy and I confirmed this problem in 112903 Win32 trunk build.

Comment 6

[nhottanscp]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110424 ***

Comment 7

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Verified as dup.

Comment 8

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

This bug is not the same case as bug 110424, it has never been corrected by the
fix to bug 110424. 
As it was duped against 110424, it was never verified after 110424 was closed,
so apparently no one noticed the problem is still there on the latest releases. 
See bug 227631 for a test case demonstrating the problem is still there.

And bug 227631 show some people actually WANT new windows to be in their default
encoding so this is a policy problem.

Comment 9

[Frank Tang]

I think both roy and me are off mozilla for more than 2 years. If these bugs are
still here now, I think the real stauts is 'won't fix'. If you want to reopen
it, please find a new owner for it first. 

Comment 10

[Travis Chase]

Mass Reassign Please excuse the spam

Comment 11

[Travis Chase]

Mass Re-opening Bugs Frank Tang Closed on Wensday March 02 for no reason, all
the spam is his fault feel free to tar and feather him

Comment 12

[Travis Chase]

Reassigning Franks old bugs to Jungshik Shin for triage - Sorry for spam

Comment 13

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Pretty sure this has been fixed in the last decade.