299091 - Illegal(?) characters displayed as spaces (UTF-8 encoding)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[denis.laplante]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Page has several instances of the 3-character sequence \0357 \0277 \0275 instead
of proper "é" .

While Safari just skips those characters, Firefox 1.04 (Macintosh) does weird
dynamic horizontal space tricks.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
view URL
Actual Results:  
First it replaces them by about 20 character's worth of white space, but if you
start selecting at "Rapport de donn",  as the selection extends right the text
slides left along the line!

The header specifies
	<meta name="content-type" http-equiv="Content-type"
content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
The menu view=>encoding shows "Unicode (UTF-8)".
When I change it to "English (US_ASCII)" it renders as 3 special characters
(upside-down question mark ...) with normal spacing.


Expected Results:  
I would prefer a single question mark to be displayed for each illegal character.

Comment 1

[Ron Biggs]

On the PC, the reverse is true: non-breaking spaces are converted to question
marks inside a black triangle.

Comment 2

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

Hm. I see no problem using the URL above. Going there shows the site just fine. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Mac OS X.

Can you still reproduce this issue? Be sure to try with a new profile.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

Comment 3

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

Closing as WORKSFORME per comment 2.