50072 - Auto-detect menu does not work correctly

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P1)

Description

[Teruko Kobayashi]

When you visit the web page which does not have meta-charset, the page will not
be displayed correctly if you select Auto-Detect menu.

Steps of reproduce
1. Launch Netscape 6 (at the default, the Character coding menu is set to
   Western (ISO-8859-1)
2. Go to http://www.yahoo.co.jp/
3. Select menu View | Character coding->Auto-Detect (Japanese)

The Japanese characters are still not displayed correctly.
If you select menu Auto-Detect (Japanese) first and go to the above URL, 
Japanese characters are displayed correctly.

Tested 2000-08-22-08 and 2000-08-23-08 and 2000-08-23-14 Win32 build.
I looked at 2000-08-17-21 Mac build.  This does not happen.  I will test more to 
find out when this broke.

Comment 1

[nhottanscp]

Reassign to ftang, cc to shanjian.

Comment 2

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I tested this in 8-21-12 Linux build.  I could reproduce this.  This does 
not happen in 8-17-08 Linux build.  During the weekend, this started to happen.

Comment 3

[Teruko Kobayashi]

This works fine in 2000-08-19-08 build.

Comment 4

[Teruko Kobayashi]

This works fine in 2000-08-20-08 Win 32 build.

Comment 5

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Nominating this for beta3.

Comment 6

[Frank Tang]

This could related to my Cache charset work check in around that date.

Comment 7

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

Marking nsbeta3+ per I18N Bug Triage.

Comment 8

[Frank Tang]

we need to make the kCharsetFromAutoDetect higher than kCharsetFromBookmark and 
kCharsetFromCache

Comment 9

[Frank Tang]

fix check in. Now we will auto detect even we have bookmark and cache charset. 
But hopefully the remembered charset will be the same so we can improve the 
performacnce.

Comment 10

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I verified this in 2000-08-29-08 Mac and Linux, and 2000-08-29-15 Win32 build.