Re: Showing garbage instead of foreign fonts in Mozilla and Firefox?

On 17-3-2005 1:03, Phillip Pi wrote:

> On 3/16/2005 1:45 AM PT, Roland wrote:
> 
>> On 15-3-2005 23:07, Phillip Pi wrote:
>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I am trying to figure out why http://bsnet.eu.org/~kris/index.html 
>>> (my friend's site) is showing bunch of unreadable foreign characters. 
>>> If you view it in Internet Explorer v6.0 SP1 (used Windows 2000 SP4 
>>> with all updates), then it is fine. Then, go back to Mozilla and do a 
>>> force reload on the same page, and the foreign characters/fonts show 
>>> up correctly!
>>>
>>> What's going on? Is Mozilla not getting the fonts or something? A 
>>> caching problem? Thank you in advance. :)
>>
>>
>>
>> They displayed OK on the first access in Moz 1.7.5 (Win2000/SP4). I 
>> saw some Hebrew characters in the top right corners, and other foreign 
>> characters in the Slovenian(?) sections on the page. Same with Firefox 
>> 1.0.1 and IE6.
>>
>> Does it happen every time after you close and revisit the page, or 
>> every time after you restart Mozilla. Does visiting the page in IE 
>> cure it, or is a shift reload in Mozilla sufficient?
> 
> 
> It only happens the first time before viewing it in IE6. You can view 
> the discussion from others and me on 
> http://p211.ezboard.com/fantfarmtheantfarmsmessageboard.showMessage?topicID=4322.topic 
> ....
> 
> 
>> What do you see? Do these character simple not appear, or do they show 
>> as rectangular boxes? Both the Hebrew and Slovenian character?
> 
> 
> http://www.blueboard.com/ants/kris_website.jpg is an example I see as well.

That /is/ odd.

Looking a the HTML source, I noted that it has to lines specifying the 
content type and character set:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-cp1250">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-cp1252">

Browsers might get confused about that.

Further the names of the charsets don't seem to specify existing 
character encodings. At least, the HTML validator complains about it: 
<http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fbsnet.eu.org%2F%7Ekris%2Findex.html>.

I guess the proper name should be 'windows-1250' or 'windows-1252' 
(that's what the Validator allows to choose in the encoding input box at 
the top of the result page).

Revalidating with character encoding windows-1250 still reveals a number 
of HTML errors (but I guess most browser don't choke on them): 
<http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fbsnet.eu.org%2F%7Ekris%2Findex.html&charset=windows-1250+%28Central+Europe%29>

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Regards,

Roland de Ruiter
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