18003 - International pages are not displaying correctly

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[cpratt]

With today,s mozilla build 1999110408 on MAC OS, try the following.

Visit the page http://www.yahoo.co.jp/index.html
Select the View |Character Set Multibyte|EUC-JP option.
Observe that japanese characters do not appear and some garbles text like "<?>"
appears.
Also visiting the following links shows the same problem :

http://www.zdnet.co.jp
http://www.tvspielfilm.de
http://www.joongang.co.kr/
http://www.chinatimes.com.tw/
http://www.china.com/zh_cn
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/iuc10/x-utf8.html
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/iuc10/x-ncr.html
http://www.cricova-wine.com/russian/Default.htm
http://www.trystero.org/moldova/flights.html

This problem is not seen on Windows.

Comment 1

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I do not see this in 110408 Commercial build.

Comment 2

[cpratt]

Bug was actually reported by shrir using my login. cc'ing shrir.

Comment 3

[cpratt]

The problem was caused by downgrading to Mac OS 8.5 on the machine without
installing the proper support for Japanese etc. Marking invalid and verifying.