306511 - tilde "~" is rendered as "?" symbol by firefox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[David Bryant]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux 2.6.11-x1) (KHTML, like Gecko)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; (firefox 1.0.6)

goto http://abc.net.au/news/nsw/weather/ and you will see many "?" symbols over 
the page  
if you look at source you will find a tilde "~" in the content section of the tags  
firefox renders the tilde as a "?" symbol or invalid character 
mozilla 1.7.8, amaya 9.2.1 and konqueror 3.3 do not  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://abc.net.au/news/nsw/weather/  
2.open view with firefox 1.0.6 
3.look at righthand side column under "Major Centers:" 
 
Actual Results:  
look and you will see 

Expected Results:  
No "?" symbol should appear  
should be blank

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050830 Firefox/1.6a1
ID:2005083019

WFM. No tildes or question marks appear on that page.

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050830
Firefox/1.0+

I see the same as comment 1 no tidlas or question marks on the page.

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

What do you have under View->Character Encoding as charset?
BTW i don't see any ~ characters on that page, only - where you described those
~ should be.

Comment 4

[Daniel.S]

Hm, there's no "Major Centers" text on the page. And there's no tescase to confirm. I personally don't have problems with "~" characters. ->WFM.