45929 - outupt warning if unicode converter hit conversion error.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[Teruko Kobayashi]

This page is the home page of Japanese Horoscope in Japanese sidebar.
This page is not loaded correctly.

Steps of reproduce
1. go to above URL

Title is displayed in the page.  Title should not be displayed in the page.
Also, nothing else is displayed.

I looked at the source.  This page is used CSS and Javascript.

Tested 2000-07-19-10 Win32 and Linux build.

Comment 1

[nhottanscp]

Reassign to [e-mail], not sure if this is a problem of Javascript 
Engine. The anmation by JS is not showing at all.

Comment 2

[Linda Baliman]

Adding Rosilene Martins, who is the program manager for this tab.

Teruko, what are the steps to reproduce?  I cannot seem to find a link from this 
tab to the URL?

Comment 3

[rogerl (gone)]

Phil, another likely DOM candidate.

Comment 4

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Changed QA contact to [e-mail].

Comment 5

[Phil Schwartau]

Attachment: Reduced HTML testcase -

Comment 6

[Phil Schwartau]

Sorry about the delay; I lost track of this one!!! My apologies !!!


This is definitely not JavaScript Engine. The reduced testcase I made
above has no JavaScript in it. It loads fine in NN4.7 and IE4.7.
It does not load in Mozilla. Using Mozilla binary 20010303xx on WinNT).


The problem lies in these two lines: 


<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;charset=x-euc-jp">
<title>マリイプリマヴェラの今日の星占い</title>


If you have only one or the other of these, Mozilla loads the page fine.
That is: if you have that <META> tag but not the <title>, it loads fine.
If you have that <title> tag but not the <META>, it loads fine.
But if you have both; Mozilla won't load the page (but NN4.7 and IE4.7 will).



That is what is stopping the given URL from rendering correctly. 
If you save the HTML for the site locally, add a <BASE> tag, and 
delete the <META> tag, Mozilla displays the page correctly. 


I will attach such a file below to prove this - 

Comment 7

[Phil Schwartau]

Attachment: HTML file of given URL with <META> tag removed

Comment 8

[Phil Schwartau]

We can see from the second attachment above that removing the <META> tag
makes the whole site work perfectly in Mozilla. This is the problem 
with both the site and the reduced testcase. 


Reassigning to Internationalization for their expertise on charsets, 
although perhaps it is Parser or DOM...


Again, my apologies for my delay on analyzing this! 

Comment 9

[nhottanscp]

I looked at the title string, it is not EUC-JP as indicated in the META tag, the 
string is actully Shift_JIS. So the page is incorrect.
Reassign to ftang, do we still want to show the body after encoutering invalid 
strings?

Comment 10

[Frank Tang]

I think they fix the page. Mark this bug as Workforme

Comment 11

[Phil Schwartau]

But what about nhotta's question at 2001-03-12 16:12 above:

>  do we still want to show the body after encoutering invalid strings?

(For example, in the reduced testcase at 2001-03-10 19:47) 

Comment 12

[Andreas Becker]

Changing QA contact to [e-mail]. Jon, can you verify this bug?  You
might want to open a new bug for nhotta's question at 2001-03-12 16:12 above.

Comment 13

[Jon Rubin]

Reopening this bug.  The original horoscope page has been fixed, but the behavior in Mozilla is still such that the body will not load if there are 
invalid strings.  If we do not load the page, we should indicate that an error is the reason for the page not loading.  At that point, the user could 
be given the choice to load the page anyway, i.e. "This page contains an error, load anyway?"

Comment 14

[nhottanscp]

Because this may happen in many situations (e.g. multiple windows, page loaded
in mail view), I don't think alerting is not a good UE.

Other browsers behavior:

4.x - it does not abort the conversion, invalid characters are displayed as garbage.

IE 5.0 - shows nothing (same as 6.0).

Comment 15

[Jon Rubin]

In the status bar, instead of saying "Document: Done", perhaps we could load the 
page (or not load the page) with the following status: "Document: Error on 
page".

Comment 16

[Frank Tang]

Change the summary from "This page is not loaded correctly", to "outupt warning 
if unicode converter hit conversion error."
Mark this as Future.

Comment 17

[Andreas Becker]

mass change, switching qa contact from jonrubin to ruixu.

Comment 18

[Adam Hauner]

-> to default owner (rather than ftang's WONTFIX)

Comment 19

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Reduced HTML testcase now works.