Bug 124841
| Summary: | Default Charactor Coding should be UTF-8 | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Phil Anderson <pza> |
| Component: | mozilla | Assignee: | Christopher Aillon <caillon> |
| Status: | CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2 | CC: | mattdm, mitr, p.van.egdom |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-10-28 17:48:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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FYI..... From the FC2 apache configuration. Note that it was previously iso-8859-1. # # Specify a default charset for all pages sent out. This is # always a good idea and opens the door for future internationalisation # of your web site, should you ever want it. Specifying it as # a default does little harm; as the standard dictates that a page # is in iso-8859-1 (latin1) unless specified otherwise i.e. you # are merely stating the obvious. There are also some security # reasons in browsers, related to javascript and URL parsing # which encourage you to always set a default char set. # AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Closing per lack of response. Note that FC1 and FC2 are no longer supported even by Fedora Legacy. Please install a still supported version and retest. If this still occurs on FC3 or FC4 and is a security issue, please assign to that version and Fedora Legacy. If it still occurs on FC5 or FC6, please reopen and assign to the correct version. mozilla itself is not shipped in FC6, so for most of these bugs that means testing in FC5 or against firefox. |
Description of problem: The default character encoding in mozilla should be UTF-8 to be consistent with the rest of the environment. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Delete your .mozilla directory 2. Start mozilla 3. Look at the default charactor coding (Edit->Prefs, Navigator->Languages) Actual Results: It's ISO-8859-1 Expected Results: It should be Unicode (UTF-8) Additional info: If you build a web page in composer, using the default character encoding (ISO-8859-1) and you use extended charactors, they will not display correctly using the default apache configuration on FC2, as apache sends a header to the client telling the client that the file is UTF-8. i.e. If you build a web page with the default mozilla settings, it won't work with the default apache settings! Maybe this is an apache bug... maybe it isn't. But, still, mozilla should have the default coding set to UTF-8 to be consistent with the rest of FC2.