263998 - Extended characters in RSS 1.0 summary are displayed wrong

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 272875

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Achton N. Netherclift]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: version 0.8 (20041011)

An RSS 1.0 feed with, for example, and ISO-8859-1 identifier (like the supplied
URL) will display extended characters in its description wrong. See the attached
image for an example.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to an RSS 1.0 feed with extended chars in description
2. Display items with extended chars in TB
3. See that the extended characters in descriptions are wrongly displayed

Actual Results:  
The characters were displayed wrong, garbled. As in UTF-8, perhaps.

Expected Results:  
Displayed them as HTML entities or translated the characters according to the
supplied charset.

Comment 1

[Achton N. Netherclift]

Attachment: Example of wrongly displayed characters.

Comment 2

[Achton N. Netherclift]

Attachment: Example of wrongly displayed characters.

Comment 3

[Christian Tanguy]

You get this same problem with many (all?) blogs from the blog-platform joueb.com 
(http://joueb.com/texts/active_sites.shtml)
For example : http://-abyskaya-.joueb.com/index.rdf

It seems the 8bit character is converted to Unicode, but the two bytes of the
Unicode are displayed as two 8bit characters.

The two cases have in common that they use the .rdf format and
encoding="iso-8859-1".

There is the same problem with the initial title of the blog, retreaved when you
add it.

Comment 4

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

could this be a dup of bug 270125?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 270125 ***

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

this was incorrectly marked as a dupe.

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

fortunately I just fixed this today against another bug...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 272875 ***