290508 - Character set problem in automatically opened windows -- latin1 characters shows up as boxes

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Haakon Riiser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

There are two ways to reproduce this bug.  The first method is:

Go to <http://www.posten.no/>, type SM014681520NO in the text
field labeled "Spor sendingen din" (located on the right side of
the screen), then click the button to the right of the text field
(labeled "SØK").

This should open up a new window with tracking information for
the package number entered above.  In the first line, in the
"Poststed" column, the correct text would be "3501 HØNEFOSS",
but instead the "Ø" is replaced with a box of some kind.
(As illustrated in the attached screenshot.)

Now for the second way to reproduce the bug.  This time, make sure
that Firefox is already running, and type

firefox -remote "openURL($url, new-window)"

where $url is

http://nettgods.posten.no/Nettgods/Internett/nettspor_res.asp?sendingsnummer=SM014681520NO

PS:  The bug will _not_ appear if Firefox isn't already running
and you start it with 'firefox $url'.  Opening the URL in a new
window is required, but as you can see, it does not matter if
the Window was opened by clicking the "SØK" button or if the
"openURL" command is used.  I have not been able to reproduce
any of this on Windows, only Linux, but it affects both Firefox
1.0.2 and Mozilla 1.8a6.  (I used the pre-compiled Gtk2 binaries.)

Finally, some basic system information:
=======================================
Slackware 10.1
glibc 2.3.4
X.org 6.8.2


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Haakon Riiser]

Attachment: Illustrates the problem described in the bug report

Comment 2

[Haakon Riiser]

Ugh, it appears that bugzilla mangled every occurence of the latin1
character by turning it into utf8.  I'll try to write it again using
HTML entities: Ø = Ø.  Let's see how that turns out...

Comment 3

[Haakon Riiser]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Still broken.

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

The steps in comment 0 no longer work (I'm guessing the site has changed). If you can reproduce this on a current site using Firefox 2.0.0.3 or later and with a clean profile, please reopen this bug with steps.

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