278090 - Problem with detecting the encoding of some sites

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[David]

I initially found this problem when browsing the Gigabyte site, where clicking
on some links opened a page full of asian alphabet symbols. Initially I thought
this just due to a problem with their web design

I next went to nVidia's site and went to the "Download Drivers" section where
the same thing happened again.

After some preliminary testing, I found that Firefox was detecting the page
encoding as UTF-16. I changed the encoding back to UTF-8 and it rendered the
page properly.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

It's the server sending the wrong encoding with the file , nothing FF can do
about that.

DUPEME

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.