283475 - URL parameters charset issue

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; ru-RU; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0 

Link on this page opens 't.htm?Description Описание', the only parameter of 
this link includes Cirillic word. t.htm java script extracts parameter and 
writes it to page. The same script also sets page title with FIXED (not 
parameter) string. What I see: title appears correct, page text charset is 
wrong (default?). Codepage in the browser menu is Win-1251 (correct), both html 
pages and http headers (coming from server) have the same setting. This repeats 
with ISO charset in META tag. If I use extracted parameter to set a title, it 
also becomes unreadable. Finally I guess that FF threats parameters line as 
westeurope (or something like this) ONLY. 
This problem also presents in Opera 7. 
No problems with: Mozilla 1.5a (!), IE 5-6, NS 4.7, 6.0, 7.0 
Any ideas? May be I can change charset for extracted parameters strings?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open link on the specified page
2.Check page charset correctness


Actual Results:  
page text displayed in iso-8859-1

Expected Results:  
URL parameters after '?' should have charset as defined in META or HTTP header

no

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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