Bug 3224 - Netscape has problems with baltic code pages
Summary: Netscape has problems with baltic code pages
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: netscape
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 3223 8702 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-06-03 01:08 UTC by Antti Andreimann
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 1999-08-18 21:23:03 UTC
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Description Antti Andreimann 1999-06-03 01:08:35 UTC
Netscape 4.51 and later have problems with baltic codepages.
Specifically with windows-1257 and iso-8859-4. When you
go to a web page that has one of those character sets you
will see a screen filled with question marks. It's very
annoying. The temporary workaround by
Ville Hallik <Ville.Hallik> is to edit netscape
binary with sed and replace the strings corresponding to
faulty codepages with bogus ones. In a strange way there
are no problems with Cp1257 codepage.
Use enclosed script for temporary workaround.

------- Email Received From  Antti Andreimann <anttix.ee> 06/02/99 22:14 -------

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-06-03 08:41:59 UTC
*** Bug 3223 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Netscape 4.51 and later have problems with baltic codepages.
Specifically with windows-1257 and iso-8859-4. When you
go to a web page that has one of those character sets you
will see a screen filled with question marks. It's very
annoying. The temporary workaround by
Ville Hallik <Ville.Hallik> is to edit netscape
binary with sed and replace the strings corresponding to
faulty codepages with bogus ones. In a strange way there
are no problems with Cp1257 codepage.
Use enclosed script for temporary workaround.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-06-23 23:15:59 UTC
do you have a sample web page that we can use as an example?

Comment 3 Antti Andreimann 1999-06-29 09:30:59 UTC
Sure: Go to http://www.mail.ee or http://www.it.ee

Comment 4 Jay Turner 1999-06-29 11:15:59 UTC
Verified in test lab using http://www.mail.ee with Netscape 4.61.

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-18 21:23:59 UTC
While netscape is broken, we really can't sed the binary as
a matter of course.

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2000-02-02 02:56:59 UTC
*** Bug 8702 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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