93586 - Character coding can't be applied to the ALL frame of the homepage.

Status: CLOSED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[l_chicken]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
BuildID:    2001080110

The chararcter coding of this homepage should be set to the Traditional
Chinese(HK-SCS) in order to display it properly. However, the character coding
setting can't be applied to all the frame of the homepage. As a result, I can't
read the words in the windows with frame.
Moreover, when I click of a link on a webpage that I had already set the
Traditional Chinese(HK-SCS) coding, this setting will not inherit to the next
page? Can't is be inherited? I don't want to set it again and again....thx

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.load the page
2.set Character coding to Traditional Chinese(HK-SCS)


Actual Results:  no font change to the right bottom frame

Expected Results:  The font of the frame should be changed to Traditional
Chinese(HK-SCS)
(Compare this with opening that frame in a single window with character coding set.)

Open that frame in a new window with character coding set will show the correct
screen.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->i18n

Comment 2

[Roy Yokoyama]

andreas: please confirm.
=== cc'ing shanjian.

Comment 3

[l_chicken]

I don't really understand what means by "Confirm".
I can say that the my problem DO exsist.
Should I provide any other information?

Comment 4

[Andreas Becker]

Switching qa contact to ylong.  Yuying, can you take a look?

Comment 5

[Roy Yokoyama]

[e-mail]: "Confirm" simply means to get our QA personal to 
look at this bug and change the bug status from UNCONFIRMED TO NEW.

Sorry for confusion. 

Comment 6

[Yuying Long]

I checked this here:
1. Frames encoding are Big5.
2. The unreadable characters are those Japanese characters that encoding in this
Big5 charset page even you manually select Big5 or Big5-HKSCS.  I can always
view the Chinese characters correctly in any case.
3. You have to open the frame pages by open a new window, and set charset to
Big5-HKSCS every time in order to view those Japanese characters correctly. 

I'm not quite sure how we should handle Japanese characters that in Big5 charset
page like such case, but I'm going to confirm this bug.  
Please change the status if there is a non-issue.
 
It happens on All platforms, change OS to ALL.

Comment 7

[Shanjian Li]

Yuying's observation is correct. The subframe html page has meta charset 
specified incorrectly. Instead of "Big5-HKSCS", "big5" is used. Since child 
frame can only inherit one charset (parent charset) from its parent, so we 
always trust meta charset before parent charset. 

Comment 8

[Roy Yokoyama]

shanjian: so is this a bug or is working  as designed?

Comment 9

[Shanjian Li]

This is working as designed, at least for know. Subframe or link will not 
inherit charset of its parent/previous page if it has meta charset specified. 
Reporter, you might want to notify the webmaster to correct the problem. To be 
specific, when a page has following line:
 <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=big5">
It should be replaced by 
 <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=big5-hkscs">

Comment 10

[Frank Tang]

give this bug to shanjian

Comment 11

[Shanjian Li]

We planned to do something to children frame charset handling. This bug is most 
like a dup of some other bug. Leave it for future.

Comment 12

[Shanjian Li]

This problem should have been fixed. The mentioned website does not exist any
more, so I can no longer verify this. 

Comment 13

[Yuying Long]

Mark as verified, it's more likely the web page problem.

Comment 14

[l_chicken]

It's ok now. Very nice.