113749 - mabat.iba.org.il: Inaccurate syntax in meta charset

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Hebrew, defect, P2)

Description

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

The URL contains the following meta charset tag:

<meta charset='visual' content='text/html; charset=windows-1255'>

The interesting thing is that if it had just said <meta charset='visual'>, it
would have been interpreted as the correct <meta http-equiv=Content-Type
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-8"> (bug 72847). I don't know if we want to
extend nhotta's compatibility patch to catch this variant also, particularly
since it is self-contradictory.

Comment 1

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

I agree that going that far to reconcile "visual" with "windows-1255" 
would be a mistake. There are other cases which might be caught by 
compatibility handling such repeating correct aliases, x-sjis and
Shift_JIS for Japanese for example. 
This particular case is an evangelism issue.

Comment 2

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Acceting the bug. P2 Major bug. Sent the web master at:

[e-mail]

a message requesting them to revise the charset tag part
to contain only "ISO-8859-8". The correct syntax is as follows:

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=ISO-8859-8">

Comment 3

[Frankie]

16 months later... why is this bug severity: major?

The page displays fine for me in Moz 2003042108 OSX.

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 5

[Ben Basson]

The following is used in the page's code now:

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1255" />

Does it need to be ISO? The page appears to display correctly (AFAIK!).

Comment 6

[Shoshannah Forbes]

The site has been re-designed since this bug has been opened, and now it has the currect charset.

Resolving fixed