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  • From: "David Braaten" <xiticix47 AT hotmail.com>
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  • Subject: [SM-Grimoire] RE: firefox
  • Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 23:30:21 +0000


From what I understand about how gecko based browsers work,
if the web server sends a http header that tells the browser
which character encoding the page is using, and the browser
will ignore the meta tag. So, there is a mismatch between
what mp3.com's web server http header is, and what the meta tag
specifies.
With the local html file, the browser will use the meta tag and use
the intended character encoding.

Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 13:49:21 +0100
From: Jirka Dutka <dutka AT lazne.cz>
Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] firefox
To: SM Grimoire-list <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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Bas van Gils wrote:
> I seem to have a problem with the way firefox handles character encodings.
> Here's what happens:
>
> - start firefox, surf to www.mp3.com.
> at each spot where the glyph with hex value 0092 should be displayed I see a
> small square.
> - The "view->character encoding" menu doesn't let me change the encoding
> - Do wget http://www.mp3.com
> - Edit this file and add the following to the <head> .. </head> section:
>
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
>
> - open this file (local) in firefox.
> notice that the squares are gone. Also notice that "view->character
> enocding" now has a windows-1252 entry in it
> - surf to www.mp3.com again
> notice that the squares are still there
> - in "view->character enconding" menu, change the encoding to Western
> (Windows-1252) and now it is displayed correctly.
>
> Now, I find this pretty annoying :-) Can anyone help out?

Try to edit BUILD part of firefox spell and delete folowing line:
--enable-native-uconv \

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  • [SM-Grimoire] RE: firefox, David Braaten, 03/08/2004

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