Firefox Character Encoding

Ingla · 03-16-2008, 01:04 PM

Hello.

Firefox allows a choice of character encodings, but auto-detect doesn't seem to be among them. I'm looking at a page whose source specifies charset=iso-8859-1, which the browser should be reading correctly as that is the default, but only switching to UTF-8 works.

Does anyone know how to get auto-detect to work or know what else might be wrong?

Thanks.

dave42 · 03-17-2008, 06:12 AM

Hi,

So the page you're accessing states it's encoded in iso-8859-1, but you have to manually switch to UTF8? There's nothing wrong with your setup - the page you're accessing is broken. It sounds like it says it's iso-8859-1, but actually sends you a UTF8-encoded page. Firefox does the right thing and tries to decode it using iso-8859-1, and fails on a few characters. I'd recommend contacting the site administrators and asking them to fix it.

HTH,
Dave

Ingla · 03-17-2008, 12:53 PM

Thanks.

Sounds logical.

adrian_vg@yahoo.com · 03-20-2008, 11:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ingla

Hello.

Firefox allows a choice of character encodings, but auto-detect doesn't seem to be among them. I'm looking at a page whose source specifies charset=iso-8859-1, which the browser should be reading correctly as that is the default, but only switching to UTF-8 works.

Does anyone know how to get auto-detect to work or know what else might be wrong?

Thanks.

I've seen this a lot lately too, and on both Windows and Linux-versions of FF. Not sure why the sudden increase in mismatched pages though...

frank4360 · 10-13-2008, 06:07 AM

When Firefox posts a warning (for example when a site has an out of date security certificate) the warning usually contains non-european characters instead of "www" or "This could be a problem with the server'"

When checking the character encoding it shows as UTF-8.

Just an annoyance, but I wonder what the problem is?