312071 - UK currency symbol (£) in web page appears as diamond symbol

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 181344

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Richard Allen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

The symbol for the UK currency (the pound £) isn't showing up in the 1.5 beta
version of Firefox. Instead it shows up as a diamond symbol.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
To see the £ sign

Comment 1

[u63580]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051010
Firefox/1.4.1

WFM.  This is usually a character-encoding issue.  What do you see for the
encoding set from Tools-> Page Info

Comment 2

[Richard Allen]

The encoding shows as gb18030 ... whatever that means?

Does this help?

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1)
Gecko/20051010 Firefox/1.6a1.  The page's encoding shows as ISO-8859-1 for me.

Neither the page nor the page's HTTP header specifies an encoding, which might
be part of why your copy of Firefox chose the wrong encoding.

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051011
Firefox/1.4.1 ID:2005101113

WFM

Comment 5

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This is bug 181344; when universal auto-detect is enabled, the page in question
is detected as gb18030, and in that case the £ symbol shows up as something else
(typically ? on the Mac, and apparently a diamond on WinXP).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181344 ***