248058 - Special characters don't display properly

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[Tom Manning]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

This was true in Version 1.6 also. In the above web page, the characters "`" "æ"
and "ø" display as "?". Other pages don't display other characters. The
characters are displayed properly on Netscape Communicator 4.8 and Internet
Explorer 6.0.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the web page.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Characters were displayed as "?".

Expected Results:  
Display them properly.

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

Wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040621

Mr. Asger Søgaard Jørgensen seems to be displayed correctly. I didn´t found the
other characters mentioned, nor ?. 
Have a look at View->Character Encoding. My settings are Autodetect: Off,
Western(ISO-8859-1)

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This page sends no character encoding, so it's interpreted as whatever you have
the pref intl.charset.default set to.  What do you have that pref set to?  (I
think the UI for it is hidden in the languages panel.)

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Email from reporter:
> My settings were Autodetect: Off and Western(ISO-8859-1). I toggled to
> another character set and back, and the "problem" characters now display
> properly!

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Sounds like a possible Profile bug then, you shouldn't need to reconfirm
prefs like that.

Comment 5

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Email from Reporter:
> I thought the problem was solved, but it came back. Special characters such as
> those that contain the various accent marks you see on French words are often
> replaced by question marks. How would I debug my profile?

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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