136352 - Popup windows sometimes do not have correct encoding

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 70507

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Eyal Zvi]

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BuildID:    2002031104

When a Hebrew page opens a pop-up window with Hebrew content, sometimes the
pop-up window doesn't get the correct encoding setting, so the content is
displayed backwards.

Pop-up windows don't have a menu bar, and the right-click menu doesn't have the
encoding sub-menu, so there's no way to set the correct encoding manually.


Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to www.haaretz.co.il - note this page is in Hebrew!

2. Click on the "Latest headlines" button (at the top of the page there's a gray
window with the latest headline. The button is jusr underneath and to the left
of this window - the URL on the button reads:
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/objects/pages/ShowAllTickers.jhtml)

3. Check the Hebrew in the pop-window is backwards.

4. Right-click inside the pop-up window to open a menu. There's no encoding
sub-menu.

Actual Results:  Sometimes: Hebrew is displayed backwards.
Always: no way to change encoding of a pop-up window.

Expected Results:
1. Ensure that pop-ups inherit their parents' encoding, if they don't have any
encoding specified.
2. Add the encoding sub-menu to the right-click menu.

The problem may apply encodings other than Hebrew or RTL languages. Should be
checked with Asian, Cyrillic, etc.

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Moving to intl component, and confirming for now, but I'm fairly sure this is a
dupe.

Comment 2

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70507 ***

Comment 3

[Yuying Long]

Verified it's a dup.  We also has another bug 122507 to address similar bug.