Bug 9783

Summary:	An XML declaration without an explicit encoding incorrectly triggers UTF-8 encoding in an HTML document
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Alexey Proskuryakov <ap>
Component:	Page Loading	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	420+
Hardware:	Mac
OS:	OS X 10.4
URL:	http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/HTML_Spec/html.html

Alexey Proskuryakov

Reported 2006-07-08 02:59:20 PDT

Steps to reproduce: 1) Open the bug URL Results: many black diamond marks. Expected results: renders OK in Firefox. My initial guess is that WebKit sees an XML declaration in this document (<?xml version="1.0"?>) and switches to UTF-8 - while Firefox presumably only does this for XML documents.

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Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 1 2006-09-01 12:30:45 PDT

Fixed in bug 5620, r16175.

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