Closed Bug 142114 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

UTF-8 page viewed as Western still shows Unicode characters

Categories

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Internationalization
Platform:
x86
Windows 98
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: dopefishjustin, Assigned: shanjian)

References

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Details

(Keywords: intl)

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020503 BuildID: 2002050308 The UTF-8 test page linked above suggests that you display it as Western to see how UTF-8 encoding works. However, when I do so, I see Unicode characters (like circled numbers) in addition to the normal 8-bit accented characters. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to URL. 2. Change encoding to Western (iso-8859-1) Actual Results: Unicode chars sprinkled in document Expected Results: All 8-bit Western chars
Keywords: intl
QA Contact: ruixu → ylong
That page is encoding as UTF-8 even though they are latin 1 characters. I'm not quite sure how those characters should be if we convert them into western iso-8859-1. Change status as new to let assign engineer to investigate.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
The characters are not being converted (or should not, anyway); the UTF-8 encoded page is just being viewed as if it were Western (so you get several meaningless Western chars for every UTF-8 char). The problem is that non-Western characters are appearing, which should never happen when the display encoding is set to Western.
should be shanjian
Assignee: yokoyama → shanjian
If you take a close look at those characters, you should see the they are 0x8e, 0x8f, and 0x90. Those code points is not defined by either iso-8859-1 nor win1252. that's say even we assume it is a win1252 page mislabeled as iso-8859-1, we still could not find a glyph for those characters. So as our best guess, we end up with those glyphs.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Shouldn't that be WONTFIX then, and not WORKSFORME?
Because I don't think it is a problem, no fix needed. Another choice is invalid, but some people don't feel comfortable when his/her bug was resolved that way. It is like a insult to their capability. Except those real obvious ones, I used to resolve them as work for me.
Mark as verified according to comment above.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
WONT = We don't really think your stupid idea is worth implementing. INVA = Man, get a clue! WORK = Ignorance is bliss, and I really don't have time checking out your claim. DUPL = Geez, we're soon at 200k bugs and you didn't check before submitting!? ASSI = We might have a fix within two years. FIXE = Alright, we solved your bug, but also got three new ones by this very patch.
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