94281 - a child win. does NOT inherit the encoding of the parent win.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 70507

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Jungshik Shin]

When no encoding(MIME charset) is speicified either in meta tag
or by http header, a child window launched from the parent
window does NOT inherit the encoding of the parent window.
Instead, it shows up in ISO 8859-1 no matter what encoding
is selected by users in the parent window.

  This is especially troublesome for a chromless window
(or any window without the 'view-character encoding menu 
by which a user can change the encoding).

  * How to reproduce

     1. Go to the URL above 
     2. If you can see Korean Hangul, the encoding of
        the page is detected correctly so that you can 
        go to step 4.
     3. In View-Character Coding menu, select Korean(EUC-KR)
     4. Click either of the two links in the page
     5. A new window will pop up, but the encoding
        used is NOT EUC-KR (the encoding of the parent window)
        BUT ISO 8859-1.  

    * Expected result: In step 5 above, a new child window
       should come up in the encoding of the parent window
       (EUC-KR).
     * the version tested : 2001-08-07-03 and some earlier builds
      including M 0.9.3, 0.9.2

    * Related bug : bug 70830

Comment 1

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Changed QA contact to [e-mail].

Comment 2

[Jungshik Shin]

I think this is a duplicate of bug 70507. I should have looked it up before
filing this bug. I'm marking this as a duplicate of 70507.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70507 ***

Comment 3

[Yuying Long]

Mark as dup, please re-open if disagree.