On Sep 24, 2004, at 11:02 AM, Stuart Morgan wrote:
Not detecting a meta tag specifying content isn't the same as not guessing right when no content type is specified (which is what that bug is about). Unless the majority of problem sites specify a text encoding that's not being picked up--which is doubtfull--a fix for whatever issue Adam is seeing won't solve the problem in general.
Right. Generally guessing a character encoding when you have NEITHER an HTTP header of a <meta> http-equiv is genuinely hard.
If we have the <meta> tag, then we should get it right 100% of the time.
If the original can find a case where the meta tag is correct but it doesn't work, he really should file a new bug.
AndyT
-Stuart
On Sep 24, 2004, at 7:43 AM, Bruce Davidson wrote:
Adam,
Hrm, there appears to be a bug with Camino here, because that page should work with the encoding that was specified in their <meta> tag, yet instead it doesn't seem to select any encoding from the text encoding menu. Here is their <meta> tag:
Hmmm... perhaps you could attach this information to bug 248304 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248304), as it might be useful. For we UK users it would be really good to get some traction on this bug, its infuriating to have to remember to switch character encodings every time you think "that price can't be right..." on a site. Worse, less experienced users might get completely confused and give up on the browser.
Do we need people to start posting a list of sites to this bug, attaching their HTTP headers and HTML <head> section so that we can determine what the overall problem is?
Cheers,
-Bruce
-- Bruce Davidson
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