128212 - zdnet.co.jp/gamespot/ - Text in article stretched out

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Japanese, defect)

Description

[Thomas Buffington Jr.]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.8+)
Gecko/20020227
BuildID:    2002022703

Mozilla build 2002022703 version 0.9.8+ 
2002 home updated version of Windows XP

While viewing an article about the upcoming PS2 online network I noticed that
the characters in the text weren't displaying properly. I have the proper
programs needed for viewing the website however some .jpg files and text related
to the story could only be viewed by using the bscroll bar at the bottom of the
Mozilla browser.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.zdnet.co.jp/gamespot/gsnews/0202/13/news10.html as that is
where the article/problem is

Comment 1

[Brant Gurganus]

Confirmed
2002022703/WinXP

I can't read Japanese, but the only problem looks like the Ad bar across the top
is partially hidden.

Comment 2

[Rui Xu]

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for posting this bug!
Could you please take a screen shot for the wrong place? Thank you.

Comment 3

[Thomas Buffington Jr.]

Attachment: Displaying of error

Comment 4

[Rui Xu]

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for quick response and the screen shot.
This is also what I got it, but it seems to be not a bug since the encoding we 
used is not correct.

We can see the correct display after changing character encoding from Western 
(ISO-8859-1) to Japanese (Shift_JIS) from menubar View > Character Coding.

Could you please try again? 
Thank you.

Comment 5

[Thomas Buffington Jr.]

Attachment: Correctly displayed with change in coding

As usual I have learned something new. Thanks so much Rui! It seems that after
switching the coding as you said the page displays properly. This is the first
time though that I had to switch coding for the page to display properly.
Everything that didn't display now displays & I no longer have to use the
browser bottom scrollbar to read the article.

Comment 6

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

If you are in the habit of browsing Japanese pages a lot,
I suggest also that you set the following:

View | Character Coding | Auto-detect | Japanese

The reason that the page did not display correctly until you
changed the Character Coding meu is because the page did not 
declare what encoding it is using. Many pages do that and browsers
need not make any guesses. But some pages still don't tell browsers
what encoding it is using and for them, the above setting 
will engage the Japanese code detection automatically.

This should also help you a lot and will make your Japanese
page browsing near flawless. If this fails, it will be rare but
you can then manually change the Character Coding menu.

Resolving it as invalid.

Comment 7

[Rui Xu]

Thanks a lot, everybody!
Verified.

Comment 8

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Moving all resolved/cloased Japan bugs to Japanese component.