Package: epiphany-browser Version: 1.8.5-2 Severity: normal Epiphany displays a page containing garbled text on certain BTS pages; I noticed the problem on <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267799>. The corruption appears on ~4 out of 5 page reloads, in a different place each time, but always in an area involving non-ASCII characters.
The BTS administrator suggested that it's a problem with the browser; the page is served as UTF-8, however the characters that trigger the problem are not encoded in UTF-8 ("Basically, that mail message has a invalid content-type, so the bts assumes that it is valid utf-8 and doesn't bother to do anything to it. It's most likely iso8859-1 instead."). While the BTS should perhaps convert anything with an invalid content-type into plain ASCII before presenting it as UTF-8, displaying it, the browser should still handle this more gracefully. :) I'm attaching a screenshot of the corruption. Note that it doesn't just bungle the display of the characters in question: there is some random HTML code in there, and even a couple of checkboxes, so it's possible that the contents of other tabs, or previously viewed pages are leaking in. The first time I triggered the bug, a followup for a different bug (from 2006) was inserted into the page for #267799 (from 2004)! Finally, I can't reproduce the problem with Firefox. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on: ii gconf2 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii gnome-icon-theme 2.12.1-2 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii iso-codes 0.44-1 ISO language, territory, currency ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libavahi-client3 0.6.7-1 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.9-5 Avahi common library ii libavahi-compat-howl0 0.6.7-1 Avahi Howl compatibility library ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.10.1-2 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.6-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcairo2 1.0.2-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-2 0.61-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.61-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - ii libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.0.3-1 GCC support library ii libgconf2-4 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgcrypt11 1.2.2-1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.1-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.12.3-1 Utility library for loading .deskt ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.8-1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.12.0.1-5 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.12.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.12.1-3 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture - ii libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.12.1-2 GNOME 2.2 print architecture User ii libgnomeui-0 2.12.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.14.0-1 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime ii libgnutls12 1.2.9-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgpg-error0 1.2-1 library for common error values an ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libmozjs0d 1.8.0.1-6 The Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScrip ii libnspr4-0d 1.8.0.1-6 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii liborbit2 1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.0-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management ii libstartup-notificatio 0.8-1 library for program launch feedbac ii libstdc++6 4.0.3-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtasn1-2 0.2.17-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Input extension li ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System multi-head display ii libxml2 2.6.23.dfsg.2-2 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxslt1.1 1.1.15-4 XSLT processing library - runtime ii libxul0d 1.8.0.1-6 Gecko engine library ii python2.3 2.3.5-9.1 An interactive high-level object-o ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information
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