Bug#368779: epiphany-browser: Doesn't fall back to windows-125x characters when an iso-8859-x page brokenly contains windows-125x only characters

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:15:06PM +0100, Sam Morris <sam at robots.org.uk> wrote:
> Package: epiphany-browser
> Version: 2.14.1-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> On pages such as <http://www.scan.co.uk/todayonly/>, epiphany renders
> characters such as quotation marks and bullet points as little boxes
> containing numbers. I guess this is because the pages incorrectly declare
> themselves as being encoded in iso-8859-x, when they should be using
> windows-125x.
> 
> This is a regression from earlier releases of epiphany; firefox also falls
> back to interpreting these pages as if they were in windows-125x. I guess
> I am not seeing this behaviour because epiphany is built against xulrunner
> these days.

Can you try with libxul0d version 1.8.0.1-5 that you can find there:
http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/02/28/debian/pool/main/x/xulrunner/libxul0d_1.8.0.1-5_i386.deb

I guess it is due to the native uconv support which is enabled in later
xulrunner, and not in firefox.
If this is the culprit, i'll investigate on it.

Thanks

Mike