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Re: [Bug-librejs] Changing default character coding
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grizzlyuser |
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Re: [Bug-librejs] Changing default character coding |
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Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:11:20 +0000 |
This seems to be related to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54857
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Thursday, February 14, 2019 2:49 PM, <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <html>
> <body>
>
> Lätiñ 1.
>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> 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.)