[Bug 228988] more tests

[André Pirard]

I know very little about upstream, but I have the feeling that "Affects 
Mozilla Firefox" should be removed from alias Bug #206884 and set in 
main Bug #228988. Thanks.

John said :
> If we need more info please feel free to give it to us without the 
> threat of "PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY, it's the last time I write".
I meant "It's the last time I rewrite the full bug description from the 
start", of course.
I continue to reply what I didn't write already.
I'm not threatening, I'm helping.
Ubuntu asks users just to report bugs and I analyze them.
I have no personal interest in this, I know how to put the displayed 
encoding right, I'm doing this for those who can't, for the sake of Firefox.


I just tried the Googled-based procedure again (removed atilf from 
history, restarted Firefox, shown Google search, right-clicked "Open in 
tab") and there you have the picture : the new tab shows (page title) 
that UTF-8 has been used to decode the page.
A page that "does not specify which encoding to use" should display with 
ISO8859-1.
(and make tests only with pages that don't, of course)


Truly, there's something unpredictable in this behaviour of Firefox 
regarding encoding.
A more predictable test to make is this :
- display http://atilf.atilf.fr/tlf.htm
- View|Character encoding|Unicode (UTF-8)
- restart Firefox
- type http://atilf.atilf.fr/tlf.htm in the address bar and display again
UTF-8 displayed again, and wrong :
A page that "does not specify which encoding to use" should display with 
ISO8859-1.

Now, I must really do something else.


** Attachment added: "UTF-8 atilf Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5.png"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14448856/UTF-8%20atilf%20Mozilla%20Firefox%203%20Beta%205.png

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Firefox can display a page with the wrong encoding
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228988
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