203490 - Firebird needs "default character coding" option.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 181541

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Ahmet A. Akin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030304 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030304 Phoenix/0.5

In Firebird (Phoenix) there is no way to force character coding.
It is causing serious usability problems because some pages keep coming its
determined coding, no matter if you change the coding to turkish from menu.
After clicking another link or reload, there you have the pages own coding
again. It makes some turkish-used pages unreadable. 

This also leads data loss. For example, in our local bugzilla, pages are
"western" coded. if i make a form entry in turkish characters, browser trashes
some turkish characters and it turns them into strange codes like : "ı" or
"ş". This may cause data losses and makes the browser unusable in turkish.
There is an option in mozilla forces browser to a deafult coding, which forces
any page to lets say one of the turkish coding "Turkish (ISO-8859-9)". 

It is, to my understanding an auto detection issue. But there must be a option
in mozilla firebird to force the browser to the "default coding". 

Bug 169802 might also be related. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to bugzilla.mozilla.org
2. change the coding to turkish from its original (western)
3. click query page
Actual Results:  
in the query page coding should be turkish again.

Expected Results:  
it shows western in coding.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Mozilla!=Firebird

Comment 2

[Ahmet A. Akin]

didnt say the contrary.

Comment 3

[noririty]

Reporter:
You can force default charset by adding the following code to your user.js file:
user_pref("intl.charset.default", "ISO-8859-9");
http://texturizer.net/firebird/edit.html#user

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181541 ***

Comment 4

[noririty]

v.

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Taking QA Contact as designated owner of Firebird-Menus. Sorry for bugspam.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 232728 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Jungshik Shin]

I don't quite see why this was resolved as a dupe of bug 181541. Is a proposed
extension in bug 181541 going to include the UI for the default character coding
__as well as__ the prioritized list of preferred languages? I don't see any
mention there.