218101 - charset needs to be added to plugins.html

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization: Localization, defect)

Description

[Jessica Blanco]

About Plug-ins page doesn't display correctly for languages with special
characters.  Look at a Chinese version of the browser and go to Help->About
Plug-ins and notice the page isn't displayed correctly. Go to View->Character
Coding and notice that the default charset is selected and that's what the page
is being displayed in.  If you change this to UTF-8 the page will then be
displayed properly.  There should be a charset defined in plugins.html (the
About Plug-ins page) to show the page correctly in the browser.

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

maybe the about redirector should set a charset on the channel it creates?
tempChannel->SetContentCharset("utf-8"), would that work?

(here
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/netwerk/protocol/about/src/nsAboutRedirector.cpp#112)

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Um.. Do the strings from plug-ins all come in UTF-8, though?

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 218621 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

see attachment 131480 [details] [diff] [review] from dupe bug 218621 for a patch.

Comment 6

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

Is this still relevant? Did bug 306310 fix this?

If this is no longer an issue, I recommend resolving WFM.

Comment 7

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard