The whole thing seems very clear to me. But, of course, I didn't write the program. Nor am I writing the documentation. Or am I? Is this the patch?
View|Character Encoding mentions the encoding that has been used to display the page currently displayed. If you change that selection, that page is redisplayed using the new encoding you select. Of course, the selection you make applies to the current page only. The list of encodings is made of user selected entries plus actually used encodings. View|Character Encoding|More Encodings is used to reach encodings that are not found in the list (and that, by being used, are temporarily added to the list). View|Character Encoding|Customize List... does that for the user selected entries. View|Character Encoding|Auto-Detect needs more explanation (and author validation). Normally, a HTML page indicates the encoding it uses. By default (no indication) the encoding is ISO 8859-1. But Bug #228988 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228988>, reports that Firefox sometimes fails to use the default. So, why is an Auto-Detect needed if it's clear what encoding to use? Well, because Web page authors sometimes forget to indicate the encoding. In that case, Firefox may help you auto-detecting the pages in your language. Auto-Detect is a global option that applies in advance to any page that does not indicate an encoding : it will try to best guess if it should display such pages with your language's encoding instead of the normal default (ISO 8859-1). But other users will continue to display those defective pages badly and Auto-Detect may get yourself into problems by not displaying ISO 8859-1 correctly. So, using this option must be done with caution and does not dispense of asking the Web author to put his pages right. Auto-Detect should be returned to off after a problem is solved. Otherwise, additional problems will not be detected. Auto-Detect Universal : best guess of the best guess is that this means auto-detect any UTF code. BTW, all the problems will be over when UTF-8 will be used exclusively (AP, 1992). -- fuzzy/confusing firefox View -> Character encoding menu semantics https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206884 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
