151359 - Changing the encoding of the page makes the info in forms disappear (Form data lost when changing encoding)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 134911

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[marina]

*** observed with 2002-06-12-1.0.0 build ***
Steps to reproduce:
- have a form (or use one at the netscape.com page);
- fill some info in the form;
- go to View|Encoding and change to a different one (from Western-8859-1 to GB2312);
//note: the forms are blank

Comment 1

[Yuying Long]

Is this right behavior?

cc more encoding/charset experts for input.

Comment 2

[Roy Yokoyama]

I know changing View/charset will cause to reflow.  
I think it's expected behavior (but not desirable)

assign to shanjian and marking as future.

Comment 3

[Shanjian Li]

I talked to john keiser, and he is working on rewriting those code. He told me
that everything I do before his rewriting will be lost. No action before his
work is done. 

Comment 4

[Dan Tobias]

Is anything happening on this now?  As it now stands, there's no way to check on
whether a page is received with a proper charset via Mozilla; I need to use
external utilities every time I want to check on this.  The use of the "default
charset" in the Page Info window is very misleading, and might lead some Web
authors to think their own pages correctly set character encodings when in fact
they do not.

Comment 5

[Dan Tobias]

Sorry about my last comment... it was intended for bug 191701.

Comment 6

[Frank Tang]

shanjian is no longer working on mozilla for 2 years and these bugs are still
here. Mark them won't fix. If you want to reopen it, find a good owner first. 

Comment 7

[Travis Chase]

Mass Bug Re-Open of bugs Frank Tang Closed with no good reason. Spam is his
fault not my own

Comment 8

[Travis Chase]

Mass Re-assinging Frank Tangs old bugs that he closed won't fix and had to be
re-open. Spam is his fault not my own

Comment 9

[OstGote!]

see also Bug 17889 for reloading

Comment 10

[OstGote!]

*** Bug 293530 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Per Persson]

This bug is still valid in Deer Park Alpha 2.
(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050904
Firefox/1.6a1)

Comment 12

[zug_treno]

*** Bug 331838 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Roman]

The following may not be clear from the above comments: if the form already had some text (e.g. when editing a page on Wikipedia), changing encoding reverts the form to the original text (i.e. it doesn't just clear the text). Ideally it would preserve the modified text.