421271 - auto-detection of character encoding incorrectly picks Chinese for BBC 606 pages with pound (£) signs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177505

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Cunningham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4v; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071205 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4v; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071205 Firefox/2.0.0.11

With Character Encoding set to Auto-Detect -> Universal, pages on the BBC Sport message board are misidentified as being gb18030 instead of windows-1252 if the page contains any pound (£) characters. See the given URL. While it'd be better if the site were explicit in its encoding, auto-detect shouldn't be getting this wrong.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set character encoding to universal autodetection using View -> Character Encoding - > Auto-Detect -> Universal.
2. Visit a page on the BBC 606 message board which contains £ figures.
Actual Results:  
Page is detected and rendered as gb18030, and strings starting with a £ sign are rendered as �.

Expected Results:  
Page is detected and rendered as windows-1252 or appropriate and £ signs are shown normally.

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This bug is already fixed in the betas of Firefox 3.