256295 - cajunline.com - Garbage is displayed instead of the text, but always displays proper text in IE

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Steve Gettys]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Firefox/0.9.3

In this page http://www.cajunline.com/red-cast.html, the text left of the
graphic displays garbage symbols in FireFox, but displays proper text in IE.
This is 100% repeatable on this page.  



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  just browse to the given URL with latest build of FireFox
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Displayed garbage symbols instead of text

Expected Results:  
Should have displayed proper text - it seems to display fine in IE.

Comment 1

[Gids Goldberg]

This page brings up 271 errors from a w3c validation. It uses non-SGML
characters in the broken section and is similarly broken in Opera. This is a
case of Garbage in --> Garbage out, should be marked INVALID in my humble
opinion. If you want it fixed E-mail the webmaster tell him/her to use regular
ASCII text in the broken section. I made a not-broken version of this page and
put it up at http://www.goldfinch.demon.co.uk/redcast/red-cast.html tell 'em to
use that if they want! 

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yep. The page mixes data in multiple completely incompatible encodings.

Over to evang.

Comment 3

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Comment 4

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

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