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

On 3/17/2005 3:37 AM PT, Roland wrote:

>>>> 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> 

Thanks. I will pass this information to K. Kris. :)
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Phillip Pi
Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst
Norton SystemWorks (PC)
Symantec Corporation
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