Bug 14500

Summary:

need to be more generous about charset declaration with meta tag

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Jungshik Shin <jshin>

Component:

Page Loading

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

Severity:

Normal

CC:

ap, ddkilzer

Priority:

Version:

523.x (Safari 3)

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Yahoo! Mail example	none

Jungshik Shin

Reported 2007-07-02 15:52:22 PDT

http://hanarei.blog32.fc2.com/ has a strange structure. Note that html tag appears twice and so does head. charset definition in meta tag appears in the 2nd head tag. WebKit does not honor it while FF and IE do. <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>無料オンラインゲームに参加しよう♪</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://j1.ax.xrea.com/l.j?id=100099131" type="text/javascript"></script> <noscript> <a href="http://w1.ax.xrea.com/c.f?id=100099131" target="_blank"><img src="http://w1.ax.xrea.com/l.f?id=100099131&url=X" alt="AX" border="0"></a> </noscript> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html lang="ja" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="ja"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=EUC-JP" />

Attachments
Yahoo! Mail example (4.91 KB, text/html) 2007-11-07 05:29 PST, David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)	no flags	Details
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Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 1 2007-07-02 22:27:21 PDT

WebKit currently stops to look for charset as soon as it reaches document body (for performance reasons). See also: bug 12526.

Jungshik Shin

Comment 2 2007-07-16 14:38:44 PDT

http://db66.vnet.cn/ is a variation on this. Its strucutre is <script> very long .... </script><form> ...</form> <script ..></script> <html> <head> <meta .... charset ...> .....

Jungshik Shin

Comment 3 2007-11-06 13:35:32 PST

Another variation: http://floraexpress.ru/ It starts with "<input>" tag. Later, it has the correct <meta> tag to indicate charset.

David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)

Comment 4 2007-11-07 05:29:19 PST

Created attachment 17107 [details] Yahoo! Mail example This (partial) reduction is an example of a HTML-based mail message (about Sandvox) rendering with the wrong charset due to a "late" <meta> tag. It was originally displayed within Yahoo! Mail, although I stripped out almost all of the Y! Mail bits for the reduction. Note the rendering of the apostrophes in the body of the message, and compare to Opera 9.22 and Firefox 2.0.0.9.

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 5 2007-12-27 00:38:05 PST

Fixed in <http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/28998>.

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