142272 - "document.writing" iso-8859-2 characters using javascript makes the text unreadable

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Milan]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041717

When I put the content of a new page into a variable, and then i
"document.write" the variable into a window, all characters, that are specific
for iso-8859-2 encoding are displayed wrong. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Put the whole page into a variable, use some unusual encoding and characters
2.document.write the variable into a window


Expected Results:  It should display the characters correctly.

You can have look at http://www.volny.cz/migli/charset_problem.html

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is the frame that you are calling document.write() from in ISO-8859-2?  As far
as I can tell, it does not indicate a charset, and is thus treated as ISO-8859-1
(it contains only valid ISO-8859-1 chars).

Comment 2

[Milan]

Well, it seems I found a reason, why the text looks odd. Please, have a look at
the URL http://www.volny.cz/migli/charset_problem.html and click on the link in
the bottom frame. Now the characters look odd. Then, set "View->Character
coding->unicode"; the characters look fine.

It seems, that the javascript engine reads the characters in iso8859-2 encoding,
transforms it into unicode and prints them.

I am not sure, if this is a correct behaviour, and if it is, is there any way
how to make javascript print characters in iso8859-2 encoding using document.write?

Comment 3

[Milan]

Solved in RC2, great work people!!!
I really love this browser:-))))))