234177 - Chatzilla has Arabic encoding after installation

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 229564

(Other Applications Graveyard :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[Met - Martin Hassman]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; cs-CZ; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

After installation I have in the Chatzilla Preferences Character encoding Arabic
(IBM-864) - so I cannot use the non-ascii characters in the Chatzilla.

Cannot there be some better encoding? (UTF-8, ISO-8859-2 or something else).

The problem is probably that you have not set Chatzilla preferences globally (in
the mozilla/defaults/pref).

Chazilla has its prefereces in the pref. dialogs - e.g. in the pref-irc.xul are
defined some Chatzilla preferences with the default value in the prefdefval="xx"
attibute. But "extensions.irc.charset" has no default value (so probably is used
in alphabet first encoding - Arabic). You can test it also, if you in
about:config reset the user value of the extensions.irc.charset so you will
obtain Arabic encoding again.

Tested on the Mozilla 1.6 (but from the source of the 0.9.59 - the problem seems
to be there still).

Put something like pref("extensions.irc.charset", "ISO-8859-2"); in the Mozilla
all.js, or check in the pref-irc.xul if some value is set and if not set
something like "ISO-8859-2" or utf-8.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[James Ross]

We don't use all.js. The problem is (as you suggested) the lack of prefdefval, which we already know. Chatzilla *does* default to UTF-8, it's just the pref window that doesn't..

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229564 ***