328456 - money amounts do not appear correctly when they are after a pound sign "£"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 177505

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[cpagegoe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060214 Camino/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060214 Camino/1.0

second paragraph down- Left back in the changing room is the header- "who cost a total of ?..." should be a £ followed by a number.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/5357192
2. view page
3.




should display £ correctly

Comment 1

[Torben]

Camino will sometimes try to guess what characther set the page is written in, unfortunately it doesn't always guess right :-( The £ sign is especially problematic, but this was supposed to be fixed in bug 248304

To see the page correctly chose View->Text Encoding->Western(ISO Latin 1)

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Dup of bug 248304? Is Auto-detect on?

Comment 3

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

Well, or of bug 177505, but yeah, when autodetect is on, it messes up the £ sign and eats other chars trying to make double-byte chars.  This particular autodetect foul-up is fixed on the trunk, but you can disable autodectect in Camino by choosing "Automatically Detect Page Encoding" in the View: Text Encoding sub-menu (which will remove the checkmark).

Since we'ver "solved" the Camino bug by defaulting to autocomplete-off, duping to the Core bug...there seems to be some interest in getting it on the 1.8 branch.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177505 ***