[tlug] Re: Strange encoding problem in FireFox

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@example.com>]

Dave M G <martin@example.com> wrote
> Recently, as in the last few weeks, I've noticed a strange error when
> viewing Japanese web pages. It took me a long time to be able to discern
> the pattern of how to make it happen, but now I've worked it out.
>
> I can see any page written in Japanese just fine. But let's say there's
> a page with a form that can take in some English words in Latin
> characters. A dictionary is the most obvious example for this. When I
> submit the data, then all English on the page that is returned has
> Katakana characters intermingled with it.
>
> It's not merely the data I've sent that gets munged up. In fact, so far
> as I can tell, the data gets sent fine. So, again using a dictionary
> example, if I look up an English word like "flag", I get back the
> Japanese 旗 back. But any and all English on the return page that
> accompanies the result is munged.
>
> I've made a screen shot of what I'm talking about here:
> http://www.autotelic.com/Screenshot.png
[...]
> However, it does not happen on Google.co.jp. I'm not sure what the
> difference is.

Assuming you've done things like restarting Firefox, etc. etc. it
looks like your font for JIS (EUC/Shift_JIS/etc.) may be corrupted.
Since Google is in UTF8 it engages a different font.

You can test this out, as Chuck suggests, by looking at another site
in UTF8 (WWWJDIC can be set to UTF8 too using the Customize page to set
a cookie.)

Jim
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Jim Breen
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Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/