Closed Bug 432697 Opened 17 years ago Closed 14 years ago

heading (h1) tags appear as symbols, not plain text on some utf-8 pages

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

3.0 Branch
x86
Windows Vista
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: info, Unassigned)

References

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Details

(Whiteboard: [CLOSEME 2010-09-15])

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5 Some utf-8 pages garble up h1 tags into symbols rather than in plain text in Firefox v3b5 that does not happen on v2. It happens every time the problematic pages are visited, although it does not happen with every page that is set as a utf-8 charset. If I highlight the h1 and copy the text, then paste into notepad, I get the plain text h1 I expected to see. But in Firefox on the screen, i just see the h1 text as symbols that I can't read. The symbols look like this: a Éëìà ~Å~åÇt àåÇçï ë Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: I just visit the following URLs (there have been many more). It always happens when I visit an offending URLs. http://nouturn.com http://www.boxesandarrows.com/story/index/date/8 Actual Results: I see text on the screen (created using h1 tags in the source) that looks like this: a Éëìà ~Å~åÇt àåÇçï ë Expected Results: Plain text, i.e. Audiotouch Lite - for Windows Here is my about:buildconfig info Build platform target i686-pc-mingw32 Build tools Compiler Version Compiler flags cl 14.00.50727.762 -GL -wd4624 -wd4952 -TC -nologo -W3 -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE) cl 14.00.50727.762 -GR- -GL -wd4624 -wd4952 -TP -nologo -Zc:wchar_t- -W3 -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE) Configure arguments --enable-application=browser --enable-update-channel=beta --enable-optimize --disable-debug --disable-tests --enable-update-packaging --enable-official-branding --enable-jemalloc
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008050404 Minefield/3.0pre Works fine for me. Please test in a more recent build with a new profile: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.x or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing. http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
Whiteboard: [CLOSEME 2010-09-15]
Version: unspecified → 3.0 Branch
No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.10 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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