Bug 76743 – Bugzilla doesn't specify character set

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Bug 76743 - Bugzilla doesn't specify character set

Summary:	Bugzilla doesn't specify character set

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Bugzilla
Classification:	Community
Component:	Bugzilla General (Show other bugs)
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Version:	2.18
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium (vote)
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Assigned To:	PnT DevOps Devs
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Blocks:	70443
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Reported:	2002-10-25 13:40 EDT by Christian Rose
Modified:	2013-06-23 23:07 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2008-08-28 16:30:35 EDT
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Description Christian Rose 2002-10-25 13:40:40 EDT

Bugzilla doesn't specify what character set is used in the html output.
By default, no character set specified implies iso-8859-1, but it is good
practice to also explicitly specify this information. Also, specifying the
character set is needed for Bugzilla to support UTF-8 as mentioned in bug 70443.

Comment 1 Aleksey Nogin 2006-04-08 14:59:49 EDT

As of 2.18, Bugzilla does specify the charset (UTF-8) in Bugzilla emails and
through the meta tag in HTML, but the HTTP header contains an empty one. Not
sure if we care about the HTTP header.

% lynx -mime_header 'https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76743'
| head -20
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:58:48 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat)
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    <title>Bug 76743 - Bugzilla doesn't specify character set</title>

Comment 2 David Lawrence 2008-08-28 16:30:35 EDT

This is properly fixed in recent versions of Bugzilla.

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