1957717 - some text in webpage with .txt extension is displayed as garbage

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 10; Mobile; rv:136.0) Gecko/136.0 Firefox/136.0

Steps to reproduce:

visit: https://jivani.neocities.org/10.4102_lit.v40i1.1521.txt

Actual results:

• it shows few text as garbage instead of alphabet
• attachment: pbrowser.jpg: display text without garbage
  on privacy browser 3.19.3
• attachment: fennec.jpg: display text with garbage
  on fennec 136.0

Expected results:

• show alphabets correctly
• note: text files are created using emacs android
  port with utf-8 unix encoding

Comment 1

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Attachment: display text with garbage on fennec 136.0

Comment 2

[జిందం వాఐి]

Attachment: display text without garbage on privacy browser 3.19.3

Comment 3

[Balázs Meskó]

Just adding some details about the issues. The crux is that no encoding is set by the web server, so the browser has to guess, and Firefox's guess is wrong. According to this helpful site, it seem to me that the file is interpreted as Windows-1252 (or ISO 8859-1) instead of the correct UTF-8.

Comment 4

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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:boek, could you have a look please?

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Comment 5

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox for Android::Browser Engine' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 6

[Jeff Boek [:boek]]

This is also the behavior on desktop. Moving the issue to be triaged.

Comment 7

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Chrome has exactly the same behavior, so this is likely to be INVALID.