Text Encoding not working

[Barkley Hound]

Text Encoding on the View Menu is grayed out and not selectable. I added it to the >> menu and it was still grayed out.

[LIMPET235]

Moving to Firefox Support...

[RobertJ]

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If the page specifies text encoding (charset) such as

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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Text Encoding on the View Menu will be grayed out. It is available only when the page HTML does not specify it.

EDIT: Here is a site

https://cheesebuerger.de/

that does not specify it and Text Encoding on the View Menu is not grayed out.

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[Barkley Hound]

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If the page specifies text encoding (charset) such as

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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Text Encoding on the View Menu will be grayed out. It is available only when the page HTML does not specify it.

EDIT: Here is a site

https://cheesebuerger.de/

that does not specify it and Text Encoding on the View Menu is not grayed out.

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Thanks. That explains it.

[RobertJ]

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Actually that site does specify this

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

So I'm somewhat confused. It has been a while since I coded web sites and there may be something I'm forgetting.

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[Gingerbread Man]

The Character Encoding menu is unavailable on the vast majority of sites. It's intentionally only enabled when the site doesn't specify a character encoding via an HTTP response header, or when there are UTF-8 errors. If you're looking for technical details, see below, but please don't add unnecessary comments there.

Bug 980904
Bug 1461741, comment 2

[therube]

Then is FF 52 different in that respect?

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp ... R%F6yksopp

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Unicode: Röyksopp
Western: Röyksopp


[therube]

Then is FF 52 different in that respect?

Yes.
Available in 52, grayed out in Quantum.

[AlainCh2]

On DHL.it the menu is greyed out....
in a frame all the week days are displayed wrong:

Lunedì = Luned�
Martedì = Marted�

And so on.
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Text is also garbled in the main page:

Waybill: 4026394702
Spedizione in transito - BRUSSELS - BELGIUM Marted�, Marzo 05, 2019 at 08:09 Origine Service Area: LE HAVRE - TREMBLAY EN FRANCE - FRANCE Destinazione Service Area: TURIN - ITALY
Data di consegna stimata: Marted�, Marzo 05, 2019
______________________________
Any solution?

(this is only an example - in Europe we have lot of mixed sites - and I just suffer in silence)

Alain

[Grumpus]

Try this first:
In your /tools/options/General /Fonts for : set to other writing systems
and on the same tab - Text encoding for legacy content set to Other (including western European)
Check allow pages to select thier own fonts.

If that doesn't resolve the issue Try and change the items below, make sure you take paper notes on what you change
intl.charset.fallback.tld; ---set to true
intl.charset.fallback.override; ---set to windows-1252
intl.charset.detector; ---set to UTF-8
intl.charset.fallback.utf8_for_file; ---set to true
intl.fallbackCharsetList.ISO-8859-1; ---set to UTF-8

[AlainCh2]

Thanks for caring:

No, they dont work

Alain

Try yourself this link - set site in italian
https://www.dhl.it/it/express/ricerca.h ... &brand=DHL

[Grumpus]

The problem looks like the site and not Firefox or your encoding settings
101 Errors, 253 warning(s)
They need to fix the site.

[mightyglydd]

^^ Site works just fine, try disabling Firefox Hardware Acceleration and restart. (Options /Performance)

[AlainCh2]

^^ Site works just fine, try disabling Firefox Hardware Acceleration and restart. (Options /Performance)

Sorry didnt find this option... but this one instead:
" Use recommended performance settings"
Update ..
ok : disabled recommended - Hdw Accel. appeared ..... and was disabled

Same as before (after a restart)


Alain

[dickvl]

This looks like a problem with the website.
This data is retrieved via XHR and if I check this response then I see the question mark in a diamond (FFFD) characters in the server response.
You can check this in the Network Monitor and only select XHR.
https://www.dhl.it/shipmentTracking?AWB ... 2009985205

"description" : "Mercoled�, Marzo 06, 2019 at 13:59",