Closed Bug 173227 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Wish: Bugzilla page should specify encoding

Categories

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126266

People

(Reporter: lapsap7+mz, Assigned: justdave)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020930
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020930

I can see that Bugzilla doesn't specify encoding for its pages:
  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
Please do so.

Actually, if Bugzilla database could handle Unicode, please use UTF-8.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I believe the first is a duplicate of bug 126266. Reopen if you disagree.

Note that mySQL uses by default he ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) encoding, but I think it
also supports UTF-8.

The additional problem with UTF-8 is that many browsers only support ISO-8859-1
so one probably needed some convertation routine [ISO-8891-1]=>[UTF-8] for this
purpose.

Note further that <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type"> is bad since it causes a
second rendering, sendingt the Content-Type in the real HTML header is better.
Sending email properly is even more difficult. One usually uses two methodes
depending whether UTF-8 or e.g. ISO-8859-1 is used. (I don't have the bug number
for the email support at hand.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126266 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Yeah, this is a dup of that bug.  That bug's summary (Allow administrator to set
charset .....) is so difficult to guess, that's why I opened a new bug.

Replying your second part of comment about HTTP header:
normally a browser would send its agent string to the server.  So, IMO, if the
browser is identified as Mozilla, then there's no problem sending the
content-type in both HTTP header AND HTML header.  If the browser is N4, then
only send HTTP header.  Isn't this a better solution?
QA Contact: matty_is_a_geek → default-qa
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