308216 - UTF-16 Character encoding displays a garbage page

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Vladimir Lushnikov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050912 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050912 Firefox/1.4

When looking at any page with the UTF-16 character encoding garbage symbols are
displayed - is this because of broken functionality or is this a feature? I
assume this is a bug, because Firefox should warn if the current encoding will
display garbage output in my opinion.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto View -> Encoding -> UTF-16
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Comment 1

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

You are telling Firefox that the page is encoded in UTF-16.  Firefox will try to
decode it as UTF-16 whether or not it really is encoded thus.  It is behaving
exactly as intended.

Resolving INVALID.