Bug 27095 – Garbled text at http://trangnhat.net

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: CONFIGURATION CHANGED
• Component: Evangelism

[Jungshik Shin]

From the chromium bug tracker ( http://crbug.com/9641 )

1. Go to http://trangnhat.net/
2. Hover mouse to link "Tin chuyên ngành - Báo chí"
   >>Second tab in the middle of the page
3. Observe the content popped up


The file is sent by the server with just 'Content-Type: text/html' so that we have to
honor what's in the file (meta charset). Now I wonder why Firefox does not honor that
in this case. Perhaps, it's coming through XHR and Firefox always interprets that as
in UTF-8 (depending on how it's pulled). 

The html page loaded separately ( http://trangnhat.net/chuyenmuc/tinchuyennganh.htm )
is interpreted as windows-1252 by Firefox and is garbled. 

The html snippet in the main html is as following. The second <li> corresponds to the middle tab in the main page. 

<div><ul id="maintab" class="shadetabs">
<li class="selected"><a href="#default" rel="ajaxcontentarea">Tin T&#7913;c hàng
ngày</a></li>
<li class=""><a rel="ajaxcontentarea" href="chuyenmuc/tinchuyennganh.htm">Tin 
chuyên ngành - Báo chí</a></li>
<li class=""><a rel="ajaxcontentarea" href="chuyenmuc/news.htm">International
News</a></li>
</ul>
<div id="ajaxcontentarea" class="contentstyle" style="width: 607px; height: 200px">

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Per XMLHttpRequest spec, it is correct behavior to look inside HTML responses for META, see <http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#text-response-entity-body>. Apparently, Firefox does not implement this.

As an aside, this page is particularly buggy - its title and body are in different encodings, as you can see in Safari or Firefox by opening it directly.

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