337985 - Losing charset when pushing back button

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[mozilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

see steps to reproduce
special-charakters are not displayed correctely when using the back-button

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Go an a website with UTF-8 charset
[ http://www.uni-konstanz.de/suche/?cont=search&lang=de ]
Send Formula-Data [search-field: "ünü"]
go on a website with another charset
[ http://www.onlex.de ]
click the back-button
refresh the website (confirm to send the data again)

=> special-charakters are not displayed correctely
Actual Results:  
=> special-characters are not displayed correctely

Expected Results:  
=> special-characters are not displayed correctely

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

(In reply to comment #0)

I haven't been able to reproduce this bug in either 1.5 or current trunk. Maybe I am misunderstanding the instructions

> Send Formula-Data [search-field: "ünü"]

I enter "ünü" in the text box labelled "Suchbegriff(e)" and press "Suche". Is that right?

> go on a website with another charset
> [ http://www.onlex.de ]

Does it make a difference how you go to the other website? I tried both with entering the URI manually in the address bar and dragging the link from the tab with this bug report to the tab with http://www.uni-konstanz.de/suche/?cont=search&lang=de

Finally, what is your default character encoding in preferences?

Comment 2

[Sander]

I can confirm this bug with trunk 2007112405. The uni-konstanz.de website still uses the correct character set after hitting the back button, but when you then _refresh_ it (resending the form data), it takes on the character set of the next visited website (which in my case I dragged onto the tab). So since the character set of onlex.de is iso-8859-1, the search box will show "ünü" rather than "ünü".
My default character set is the default ISO-8859-1, but this happens when I change that to UTF-8 as well.