160798 - Reload a bookmark page withoutcharset meta-tag cause display garbled

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Yuying Long]

Build: 08-02 branch build on all platforms

Steps:
1. Create a new profile, launch browser.
2. Keep auto-detect OFF, load a page without charset meta-tag, e.g.:
http://shopping.yahoo.co.jp
http://www.geocities.co.jp
http://www.f10.com.cn
3. The page is marked as iso-8859-1 and displayed garbled - correct behavior here.
4. Select the correct charset for page, e.g. euc-jp or gb2312.
5. The page is display properly.
6. Bookmark this page by drag/drop the page into personal toolbar.
7. Click on this bookmark in tool bar.
  - the page is display properly here.

8. Reload this page by click the bookmark, reload or shift-reload.
 - The page is marked as UTF-8 and displayed garbled.
9. Reload page again, again...
 - Will repeat result in step 7 and 8, the page will switch between corect
charset and UTF-8.

Clear Cache will get the same result.

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

cannot reproduce this problem. Can you try it again?

Comment 2

[Yuying Long]

Yes, I still can reproduce it on 01-16 trunk build by click the bookmark in toolbar.

Comment 3

[marina]

per i18 triage: nsbeta1-

Comment 4

[Adam Hauner]

-> to default owner (rather than ftang's WONTFIX)

Comment 5

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

We now run chardetng every time for these and intentionally don't remember the menu choices across time.