274288 - Wrong Character Encoding with Auto-Dedect "Universal" and no info from website

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 181344

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Gunther Schmidt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

When surfing through some UK sites, the pound character was always wrong. By
checking the used character set, it was Chinese Simplified (gb18030). 

By checking META and http header information there was no encoding information
provided by the site. 

When I turned Auto-Dedect OFF, it used default Western and showed the sites correct.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set Character encoding to Auto-Dedect Universal.
2. Surf on a site without encoding information.
3. Special characters are not recognised.

Actual Results:  
e.g. Average Cost: �,794

Expected Results:  
e.g. Average Cost: £125,794

Comment 1

[Gérard Talbot]

Gunther, can you try again with setting
Edit/Preferences.../Navigator/Languages/Default Character Encoding and here
choose Western ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15

If the server does not define character set in the http headers (I checked with
Delorie's http headers) and if the page has no info (like a meta) on the
character encoding, then I believe your default character encoding will be used.

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181344 ***