391660 - Default Character Encoding doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Pasi Riikonen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

I’ve changed default character encoding, but nothing happens.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tools 
2. Options (Content tab)
3. Font an& Colors
4. Advanced 
5. Character Encoding
Actual Results:  
Nothing!

Expected Results:  
Character encoding will be change.

Every time I have to change character encoding from: View -> Character Encoding.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

The default character encoding will only be used to display pages that do not specify which character encoding to use. Most page already have one set.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

What Jo said. Is there a specific page you're seeing this on? Do those pages have a character encoding set already?

Comment 3

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Closing as incomplete, no feedback since more then 6 months.

if you can still reproduce this bug with a latest Firefox Trunk Build
or Firefox Beta 5, please comment and reopen. Please provide then a url/testcase, this would help us to reproduce the bug.