Bug#476463: /usr/bin/epiphany: Does not show pages with charset=macintosh correctly

[Mike Hommey]

reassign 476463 xulrunner
found 476463 1.8.0.1-6
fixed 476463 1.9~b5-1
thanks

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:55:00PM +0200, Harri Kiiskinen wrote:
> Package: epiphany-browser
> Version: 2.20.3-1
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/bin/epiphany
> 
> 
> When viewing pages with MacIntosh character encoding defined as
> 
> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=macintosh">
> 
> all non-ascii characters appear as white question marks on a black, tilted box.
> (See for example: http://pro.tsv.fi/kfy/arctos/index41.html)
> These pages open correctly with all other browsers, like Iceape etc., so it should not be a locale problem.
>  Cannot be sure, whether this appeared suddenly at some point or not, as usually I don't pay much attention to the encodings of the pages I visit.

This is because of the native uconv code in xulrunner. This has been
fixed in experimental, by disabling it.

Mike