273057 - languagesonline.org.uk - utf-8 pages do not display foreign accents - just query marks

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

Description

[john russell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041203
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041203

the given url shows how accents are not displayed.
the page called accents really emphasises this as
pages delivered in 8859-1 display ok on firebird
but not mozilla.  opera has no problems with anything
on this site... 
if it is incorrect coding --let me know the issue
and i will relay to site owner

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. view homepage
2. select accents -- french
3. repeat with firefox and opera
4. watch page info for delivered encoding !!! 

Actual Results:  
query marks instead of acents

Expected Results:  
accents instead of query marks

Comment 1

[Wolfgang Uhr]

Hello 

That ist not a problem of Mozilla/Firefox. You are sending an incorrect
http-header information.

Test your page in: http://web-sniffer.net/

You send: Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7[CRLF]

See: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-headers-charset

Delete utf-8 and it works.

Best regards 
Wolfgang

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky, bz on IRC]]

The page claims to be UTF8 in the headers, but the data is not actually UTF-8
(it's ISO-8859-1, looks like).  To evang to fix the server to not claim that the
data is UTf-8 when it's not.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.