507093 - Special characters are rendered wrongly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Martijn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1

When visiting (amongst others) the reported website, special characters (often used in French, Scandinavian, etc) are rendered wrongly. When visiting the same site with IE, this is shown correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit website, see text
2. Vist same website with IE, compare text
Actual Results:  
Text is rendered wrongly

Expected Results:  
Show proper characters

none

Comment 1

[Mardeg]

http://web-sniffer.net/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bonadresse.com%2Fflist_chambres-hotes-beaune.htm&submit=Submit&http=1.1&gzip=yes&type=GET&uak=0 shows this header:
Content-Type:	text/html (BOM UTF-8)

View -> Page Source shows this line:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

This is mismatched Encoding instructions from the webserver end. Do

View -> Character Encoding -> Unicode (UTF-8)

to force UTF-8 encoding and the page looks fine.

Comment 2

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Enabling HTML5 parser fixed this.

Comment 3

[Hikaru Kitamura]

Changing the "Character Encoding" to "Unicode (UTF-8)" solves the problem on Firefox 3.5.1 (Mac OSX).