On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:44:49PM +0800, Hongzheng Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: epiphany-browser: Cannot display contents correctly with GBK > encoding > Package: epiphany-browser > Version: 2.14.1-1 > Severity: normal > > Hello, > > Although not standardized as national standard, Chinese Simplified > (GBK) is widely used in simplified chinese area, such as mainland of > China. Due to the fact that, the former national standard of China > GB2312 has only about six thousand chinese characters, many web pages > have to be decoded with GBK encoding, otherwise some chinese > characters will be displayed as black diamonds. In fact, GB2312 is a > subset of GBK, and both of these encodings are compatible with ASCII. > > But I find the current version of epiphany-browser cannot support GBK > correctly. Even a web page encoded totally with GB2312 cannot be > displayed correctly with GBK. I also tested GB18030 encoding, which > is the current national standard of China and is a superset of GB2312 > and GBK. The text encoding of GB18030 works properly. > > So, let me conclude. A web page encoded with GB2312 can be decoded > correctly with both GB2312 and GB18030; a web page with GB18030 can > only be decoded correctly partly with GB2312 if there are some chinese > characters out of the scope of GB2312. But all these pages can not be > decoded with GBK.
Could you give examples of such webpages ? (i.e urls) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
