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[Bug-librejs] Changing default character coding
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Per Starbäck |
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[Bug-librejs] Changing default character coding |
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Date: |
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:49:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
It seems like LibreJS, at least in Firefox, can change the expected
default character coding, which I think is a bug. Here's how to
reproduce:
In Firefox with disabled LibreJS I go to
https://cl.lingfil.uu.se/~starback/char.html . That test only
contains
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
Lätiñ 1.
</body>
</html>
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coded in Latin-1. The web server doesn't say anything about character
encoding (as confirmed by wget -S) and it is shown by Firefox as the
expected "Lätiñ 1.".
Then I activate LibreJS and reload the page. Now it is shown as
"L�ti� 1." instead, and I notice that at "View→Text Encoding" now
"Unicode" is ticked instead of "Western" as it was before.
It is surely good practice to always specify character encoding on
the web, but the HTTP standard still specifies that iso-8859-1 is the
default, so I think this should work, and LibreJS introduces a bug.
(Versions: Firefox 60.5.0esr for CentOS on GNU/Linux;
GNU LibreJS 7.19rc3.)
- [Bug-librejs] Changing default character coding,
Per Starbäck <=