185437 - no way to set the default encoding

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Mohammed Sameer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

Hi,
I hope there'll be a way to set the default encoding to use if the charset meta
tag is not there
it's really annoying to switch the encoding manually for every page

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[alanjstr]

Do you have autodetect on?  What websites?

Comment 2

[Daniel Schröder]

I can confirm this behaviour with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
de-DE; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021228 Phoenix/0.5 running on WinXP Pro German (so it's
not Linux-specific).

For an example, goto http://www.pnp.de/news/boulevard/regional/daniel02/main.htm
(this might not be the best example, as I don't know how long this page will be
around, but it's the only one I have at hand). Observe that all the umlauts and
other non-ASCII characters are displayed as question marks.

I am aware that this is due a bug in the web site, not in Phoenix (missing
character encoding meta tag while using ISO-8859-1 character codes). However,
this bug is, at least in German web pages, so common that it would be very
convenient if Phoenix had a way to change the default encoding.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

worksforme with latest Phoenix build on RH8. all of the umlauts at
http://www.pnp.de/news/boulevard/regional/daniel02/main.htm displayed fine

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

taking QA contact, sorry about the bugspam

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified worksforme 2004-01-10

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change