470285 - Automatically sets encoding to Unicode (UTF-8) that is wrong

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alex Goldovich]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

Exhibits diamond-like � character. Firefox (2 through 3 latest) automatically sets
encoding to Unicode (UTF-8). The problem corrects when encoding changed
manually to Western (ISO-8859-1.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto http://www.dictionaraoke.org/
2. Whatch for strings
   m-sli�k da ninja
   Moxy Fr�vous "splatter
3. Open View > Character Encoding > see • Unicode (UTF-8)
4. Change Encoding to 
5. See the strings change to:
   m-sli©k da ninja
   Moxy Fr…vous "splatter
Actual Results:  
Text becomes readable

Expected Results:  
Firefox has to do the work automatically.

This bug is related to 
Bug 470277 -  Automatically sets encoding to Western (ISO-8859-1) that is wrong.

Comment 1

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

What's the content-type being sent by the server?

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

via web-sniffer.net :

HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date:	Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:09:28 GMT	
Server:	Apache	
Last-Modified:	Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:32:40 GMT	
ETag:	"1e13358-c738-479a7600"	
Accept-Ranges:	bytes	
Vary:	Accept-Encoding	
Content-Encoding:	gzip	
X-Powered-By:	The blood, sweat and tears of the fine, fine TextDrive staff	
Served-By:	TextDrive	
Content-Length:	10053	
Connection:	close	
Content-Type:	text/html; charset=UTF-8

-> invalid