280344 - Firefox window's non-English title is presented as a set of question marks

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alex]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When you open www.lebed.com, the window is supposed to have a Russian title

Независимый альманах "Лебедь"

It reads instead:

??????????? ???????? "??????"

The same happens with any Russian-language site.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open www.lebed.com or www.izvestia.ru or any other non-Latin site.
2. Look at the window's title bar. 
3. Enjoy!

Actual Results:  
All non-Latin characters in the window title are replaced with question marks

Expected Results:  
Any foreign characters should be presented correctly in the window's title.

Comment 1

[u63580]

This is WFM on WinXP.  This could be an OS-related issue, rather than FF.

Comment 2

[Ng Ming Hong]

Work fine under win2k too.
Are you sure Russian font support is installed in your win98?

Comment 3

[Jungshik Shin]

Unless you have a Russian Windows 9x/ME, you can't get Cyrillic letters in the
window title bar or similar places that are under the control of the OS (as
opposed to Mozilla).

There's nothing we can do (well, we could have rolled our own windowing
system....). That's the limitation of the OS (Win 9x/ME). MS IE on Win 9x/ME has
exactly the same problem. Note that Win 2k/XP are totally different from Win
9x/ME in this respect. The best you can do is to move on to Win 2k/XP.