135718 - International Characters in Window Title

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 9449

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Dmytro Borovsky]

(Using Windows NT/2000/XP with 1251 code page for non-Unicode applications.)

Mozilla (2002032916) seems to be unable to display characters different from
current Windows code page in title bar. On the URI provided
(http://www.kims.com.ua/pages/bowe/bowe.html) Mozilla displays «BoWE -  Íåìåöêîå
îáîðóäîâàíèå äëÿ õèì÷èñòîê», but Web page is titled as
«BöWE»/«BöWE», so it should
display «BöWE», but umlaut is lost.
If you open (http://www.charivnytsya.com/catalogue/size-10-10.html) titled
«×àð³âíèöÿ — âûøèâêè 10×10 ñì» Mozilla displays «?» except multiplication sign
as it is not in current Windows code page. Internet Explorer 5+ on NT-based
systems displays correctly any combination of Unicode 2.1 symbols including
those not in current character set/code page.
This bug affects only window title. It doesn’t affect Tab title or bokmark title.

REPRODUCE THIS BUG: In Windows 2000 go to Control Panel, Interantional, General
tab, click Set Default button on the bottom left. Then select language which
character set differs from character set of page you are going to browse. I. e.
choose Greek and open page with title in Russian. Every Cyrillic character in
window title will be replaced with question mark. Then select Russian in that
list and open the same page. You see, Mozilla cannot process characters not from
system code page in window title.
So this bug will prevent from using Mozilla world-wide. For example, Greek
Ambassador in Ukraine wil find Mozilla useless as it cannot correctly display
Greek and Ukrainian pages at the same time.

(PS. Standard Windows fonts contain characters for Greek and Cyrillic symbols as
the same pages display correctly (I mean only titles) in IE5+.)
(PPS. I typed Cyrillic characters, so don’t know if they post correctly. If
something in text is unreadable that it is non-Latin symbol. Bugzilla seems to
represent some characters with their codes so not sure if everything will look
well. If something is ununderstandable feel free to email me directly for
explanations.)
(PPPS. Mozilla is GREAT!)

Comment 1

[Aaron Kaluszka]

Duplicate I believe, reopen if you think otherwise.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9449 ***

Comment 2

[Rui Xu]

VERIFIED. (Unicode support issue on NT-based Windows)