897302 - Firefox does not use the encoding declared by the server

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 890478

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Vincent Lefevre]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20130723 Firefox/25.0 (Nightly/Aurora)
Build ID: 20130723030205

Steps to reproduce:

Open http://www.vinc17.net/mutt/fr.po then look at Page Info.


Actual results:

The Page Info dialogue says: "Encoding: windows-1252".


Expected results:

The Page Info dialogue should say: "Encoding: iso-8859-1", because this is what has been declared by the server:

  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

(information from Tools → Web Developer → Network).

Comment 2

[Oliver Kluge]

That bug was closed as invalid. Declaring windows1252 can never be correct on a Linux machine, because that code page does not exist. Also, the actual text rendering is obviously wrong and NOT iso8859-1, just look at it.