232295 - a lot of strange and random characters are shown

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Diego Gonzalez]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040127 Epiphany/1.1.5

the page at http://planet.gnome.org shows a lot of random characters with
strange characters, it happends in pages at random, sometimes after reloading
the page the strangeness disappears. The page given is a weblog aggregator, it
seems the characters are only incorrect near the same person weblog: rodrigo
moya, but in his weblog everything looks ok.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
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attached are a screenshot and the source code for the page.

Comment 1

[Diego Gonzalez]

Attachment: screenshots showing the problem

Comment 2

[Diego Gonzalez]

Attachment: page saved by epiphany, it stores weired things

Comment 3

[Diego Gonzalez]

Attachment: page saved by links, this html is saved as it should

Comment 4

[Diego Gonzalez]

Attachment: configuration used to compile mozilla

Comment 5

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Well, Rodrigo Moya's weblog is in ISO-8859-1 (without a charset declaration),
while http://planet.gnome.org is in UTF-8. Even in attachment 139985 [details], there are
some unrecognized characters that are displayed as ?. In attachment 139984 [details] it
looks as if the decoder isn't recovering from the errors somehow.

|ac_add_options --enable-native-uconv| in the config. might be the problem, but
there is no way that the page can be displayed correctly as it stands.

Comment 6

[Jungshik Shin]

I agree with Simon. Either this bug has to be resolved as invalid or we have to
make our glue to 'native converters' better handle situations like this. 

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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