Closed Bug 1296306 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

can't display cp850 charset

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
46 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 846936

People

(Reporter: etlweather, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.106 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I have some HTML file generated by an old software. It writes files in cp850 (aka ibm850). It puts this at the top of the file:

<HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=ibm850">

The file is itself writing to disk using cp850 encoding (i.e. if I open it in Notepad++ for example, it's properly recognized as such).




Actual results:

In Internet Explorer, this file shows properly. In Firefox 46, I get some wrong characters. For example, I get ÄÄ instead of ──.

I tried various aliases for IBM850 per the Mozilla CharSet Aliases document, but none worked.


Expected results:

The web page should be displayed using cp850 charset.
OS: Unspecified → Windows 7
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64
The support for IBM850 was dropped 4 years, at Firefox 19.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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