307543 - long hyphen character rendered incorrectly as question mark

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Scott McMasters]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Often at Yahoo! News the long hyphen character is used.  In Firefox this is
rendered incorrectly as a question mark.  I don't remember seeing this at other
sites.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  browse to example URL
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Actual Results:  
no change

Expected Results:  
rendered the long hyphen character

Comment 1

[Michael (GoodWill)]

Attachment: dump of the reported page

wget dump of the reported page

Comment 2

[Michael (GoodWill)]

The charset of the page is UTF-8 
What does not render is character with ascii code of 151 (hex: 97)

it seem that utf-8 has no equivallent character for that ascii 151

Comment 3

[Uri Bernstein]

Right. The page claims to be UTF-8 but is actually encoded in Windows-1252. So
this is not a Firefox bug => INVALID.

Comment 4

[Scott McMasters]

Sorry, I thought ascii and unicode were suppose to correspond, but I just
checked some unicode charts and they sure don't.