273212 - The text files (windows format) are not interpretting as (7 bit ?) text, and instead show garbled characters

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Known as "Tabris DarkPeace McSars"]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

There is no need to expand on the error.

when viewing (non Unix) TXT files via the URL directly, they show as garbled
characters, Unix TXT files MIGHT work fine, note the files are not HTML or HTM
files, if they are renamed it works fine.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click the link I provided above
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
਍湉汣摵⁥⁡敳瑣潩湯删䵁琠獥楴杮਍਍睷⹷敭瑭獥⹴牯൧眊睷洮浥整瑳㘸挮浯਍਍ is displayed,
instead of the actual contents of the (Windows) TEXT file when veiwed via the
URL directly

Expected Results:  
Displayed this: "Include a section on RAM testing

www.memtest.org
www.memtest86.com

"
The text file in question

Comment 1

[Radek 'sysKin' Czyz]

WFM
I can only get such characters if I force utf-16 encoding.

Server respose is text/plain, no character encoding in HTTP header - perhaps
your default is funny?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Comment 2

[Known as "Tabris DarkPeace McSars"]

Well that is weird, I changed it, then change it back (char encoding settings)
and now I can't even recreate the problem.

Most strange, I wonder if any devs can recreate it with a fresh install on a
Windows XP Pro, SP2, English machine ?

Still leaving as unconfirmed for now, but there is a work around, so it is far
lower priority now.

Tabris.DarkPeace

Comment 3

[Jonathan Chambers]

URL no longer works/exists

Comment 4

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

wfm per inability to reproduce, if problems occurs again, feel free to reopen.