285242 - UTF-8 in title bar not displayed correctly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Chuck Han]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

UTF-8 in title bar not displayed correctly, and, in fact, incorrect characters
spill into the body.  This page DOES display correctly when it is a local file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to www.prototypos.com
Actual Results:  
displays "Ï€ Ï Î¿ Ï„ ÏŒ Ï„ Ï… Ï€ ο Ï‚" in the title bar and "" on the page 

Expected Results:  
should display "π ρ ο τ ό τ υ π ο ς" in the title bar

Comment 1

[Chuck Han]

It seems like the character encoding automatically switches to UTF-8 for the
local file but not for the non-local file?  Note that the automatic switching to
UTF-8 works in IE.

Comment 2

[PikeUK]

Your server is sending:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Comment 3

[Chuck Han]

I thought that if the line:

  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

is included in the <head/> element, the browser would be forced to honor UTF-8.

Comment 4

[PikeUK]

See:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/charset.html#h-5.2.2

"To sum up, conforming user agents must observe the following priorities when
determining a document's character encoding (from highest priority to lowest):

   1. An HTTP "charset" parameter in a "Content-Type" field.
   2. A META declaration with "http-equiv" set to "Content-Type" and a value set
for "charset".
   3. The charset attribute set on an element that designates an external resource."

The HTTP Content-Type header is a higher priority than the meta http-equiv
element. Since your page has both, the header "wins".

Comment 5

[PikeUK]

Marking bug as INVALID (forgot to do that first time around).