On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 06:08:37PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Package: iceweasel > Version: 3.5.11-1 > Severity: normal > > According to the W3C[*], C1 control codes such as U+0080 should not > be interpreted as Microsoft characters. In the attached testcase, > Iceweasel displays a Euro symbol for U+0080, which is incorrect. > > [*] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-controls > Whereas the ISO 8859 family reserves the C1 range for controls, > Microsoft character sets (e.g. 1250-1258) place characters in this > range. Sometimes content authors mistakenly use the Microsoft > character code points in creating NCRs instead of using the Unicode > values. Because of the prevalence of this mistake, many browsers > display the Microsoft characters in this range. This is incorrect > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > behavior and further misleads the developer by incorrectly > ^^^^^^^^ > confirming the mistaken value. The problem may eventually be > discovered when the data is treated by some application, or when a > standards-conforming browser fails to display the intended > character.
Would you mind reporting that upstream? (and against lynx if you want, too, because my mutt displayed a € in your attachment through lynx). Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
