534631 - Character Encoding - graphics appear with normal text

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Edward]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0

On the above page, there are graphics mixed in with normal text.  Next to certain words, with the CHaracter Encoding defaulting to Unicode (UTF-8), there are black diamonds with a white question mark appearing in place of something else.  If the encoding is changed to Western (ISO-8859-1) or Windows-1252, these diamonds change to an upside-down question mark with a fraction "1/2" to the right of it.  


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to above example page.
2.Scroll down to Profile.
3.Some text appears as diamonds/question marks, depending on the Character Encoding used.
Actual Results:  
Some text appears as diamonds/question marks, depending on the Character Encoding used.

Expected Results:  
Correct punctuation (apostrophes?) should appear instead of the described graphics.


Occurs with both Windows and Linux of SeaMonkey 2.0.

Comment 1

[:Hb]

Page is delivered with "Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8". Has the font you selected to display websites the appropriate signs to display the delivered characters?

Set Menu - View - Character Encoding - Auto-Detect to Universal and assure that UTF-8 is available in ... - Character Encoding - Customize List.

WFM. Please reopen this bug if problem persists and provide a screenshot.

Comment 2

[Edward]

Re-opening bug, please see attached screenshot of problem.

Comment 3

[Edward]

Attachment: Attachment showing reported text issue.

Comment 4

[:Hb]

I can confirm the faulty characters on the URL http://finance.aol.com/company/aol-inc/aol/nys/key-executives as shown in the screenshot from comment 3.

The AOL server delivers three bytes for the apostrophe sign: EF BF BD. So this error arises in IE 7 too.