264333 - "File Save As" causes corrupt characters in saved file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 212158

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

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

When saving the web page with images, everything seemed fine.  I then loaded the
saved page, and some characters where corrupted. Not all, only some text though.
Have a look under the paragraph
titled "ECO : Evaluate OCL in Code".  I tried the same thing with Opera and IE,
and they both saved the file fine, and it views fine with FireFox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to website http://blogs.borland.com/MalcolmGroves/
2. Click File->"Save Page As.."
3. enter filename 
4. Select save as filetype: "Web Page, complete"
5. Click SAVE
6. Reload the saved file with FireFox as see corrupted charaters in the text.

Actual Results:  
some text is corrupted

Expected Results:  
show the same characters as it was when I viewed the website. there was no
problem on the website page.

Comment 1

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

Can you attach a screen capture ? I can't reproduce with Mozilla.

You don't need any special software to do a screen capture. Just press ALT-PRINT
SCREEN, and paste inside Paint. Then save in a file, and attach the file to this
bug.

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I only see one corrupt character just under the headline "ECO : Variables Part 1"
I noticed that the online file has a character encoding of UTF-8, but the saved
file is viewed with a character encoding of ISO-8859-1. 
This could cause the problem here, I guess.

See also bug 259246.

Comment 3

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

OK, now I understand. 
My system is set to use UTF-8 as a default, so when I reread the page I see it
correctly. My fault for having a non-standard configuration, but such a large
page was very hard to investigate ...

This is bug 259246 if the description for bug 259246 is incomplete.
 

Comment 4

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

bug 171103 is somewhat related

bug 259246 is a duplicate of bug 212158

marking this bug as duplicate as well.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 212158 ***

Comment 5

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Attachment: corrupt characters

Comment 6

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Attachment: lots more corrupt characters

Comment 7

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

thanks for the screenshots; however, the problem is already understood. it is
being tracked in bug 212158.