42209 - question mark characters in msn.com

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[Stefan Fey]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m16) Gecko/20000609
BuildID:    2000060908

Mozilla shows some unusual question mark charactern in the msn.com Menu for
example at. "Radio & Video" looks like "Radio?&?Video".

Looks ok in other browsers.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open website msn.com
2. take a look at the menu on the left side


Actual Results:  Showing unusual characters

Expected Results:  showing a blank character

using German (European Latin-1) system

Comment 1

[karnaze (gone)]

Pierre, please triage these from Clayton's list.

Comment 2

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Nav4x shows the same problem but IE5 doesn't (not surprising...). I think it is 
an error on the server side. The question marks represent characters in the HTML 
source that are out of the 7-bit range and unknown for the specified charset 
("charset=utf-8"). These characters were supposed to be non-breakable spaces.

See the 2 testcases that I'm going to attach for more information.
Reassigned to i18n.

Comment 3

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Attachment: testcase with specified charset

Comment 4

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Attachment: testcase without specified charset

Comment 5

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Looks like a dup of bug 37330.

Comment 6

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Changed QA contact to [e-mail].

Comment 7

[Frank Tang]

The www.msn.com fix their page.

Comment 8

[Yuying Long]

With 01-16 Mtrunk, I didn't see the problem here.