Erik van der Poel Reporter
	Description • 20 years ago

It would be nice if bugzilla.mozilla.org would announce its charset as UTF-8
(in the HTTP Content-Type header, the HTML META HTTP-EQUIV tag, or both). This
way, users could input international text and bugzilla's output would be
readable too (if it contained UTF-8 in the bug report).

One possible concern about such a change is that some text may already have
been entered in various charsets other than UTF-8 (and US-ASCII), and they
would not display correctly under UTF-8, but users can easily override the
server's announcement using the View | Character Encoding menu.

Currently, bugzilla.mozilla.org does not announce the charset, so it is broken
for everybody. If the charset is announced as UTF-8, it will at least work
for the bug reports that use UTF-8, which is a world-wide charset. Having it
work for UTF-8 is better than having it not work for anything at all.

This bug report is from:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279099#c217

	Gervase Markham [:gerv]
	Comment 1 • 20 years ago

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126266 ***