61126 - Non-system charsets in document titles map to sys default characters

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 9449

(Core :: Internationalization, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Sampo Syreeni]

Even in documents with an encoding surpassing the system character set (like
utf-8), the browser attempts direct rendering of the document title into the
title bar. Under win32, foreign characters are converted into system default
character. In case of completely unreadable document titles, the result is
unaesthetic (a long series of question marks, for instance) and uninformative.
At the same time the GUI components used by the browser inside the window
content can render the title just fine. If it is not possible to use Mozilla's
own character rendering code to render the window caption, it would be advisable
to handle this situation like IE5.5 does - to show the document URI instead.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

updating component.

Comment 2

[timeless]

fwiw. On windows2000, ie5.5 is always able to render chineese characters into 
the titlebar even though mozilla can't.  I suspect we're generally messing up.  
But I am not sure how.

Hrm. Reporter: what fonts are you using for window title? [I'm using Tahoma]

In regional options [general tab], I have all languages in the list in 
"Language settings for the system" selected. [Also in the Advanced dialog].

What we have is ok, so i'm going to mark this as an Enhancement request.

Comment 3

[nhottanscp]

Reassign to trudelle, please reassign to the owner of the windows title bug.

Comment 4

[Peter Trudelle]

->danm

Comment 5

[Dan M]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9449 ***

Comment 6

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Verified as dup.