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[alphaomega]

Was watching "Final Witness" and decided to do a google search for "Erin Caffey".
Came across a couple of links that do not display properly in the browser (Firefox in Slackware Linux).

Firefox indicates the encoding is UTF-8.
Checked the site in Firefox on Windows XP...same issue.
Checked the site in Internet Explorer and the page displays correctly.
Internet Explorer indicates the encoding is UTF-8 and the page source indicates it is UTF-8.

Any thoughts on why the page does not display correctly in Firefox (in both Linux and Windows)?
direct link to page in question on pysih(dot)com (people you'll see in he**)

The following UTF-8 sampler page does display correctly in Firefox.
http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/utf8/

Not a big deal...just curious why this particular page does not display correctly in either version
of Firefox while it does display correctly in Internet Explorer.

On a side note...when doing the google search...
the page does display correctly in google's page preview.

Cheers

Edited by alphaomega, 27 June 2012 - 11:34 PM.

[securitybreach]

Odd, it worked perfectly on Google Chrome/Linux but would not display the page correctly on Firefox. I am at a loss why it would not work on Firefox but maybe it has something to do with the rendering engine used or something??

[V.T. Eric Layton]

I'm running FF 13.1 in Slackware64 13.37 Stable and that page renders perfectly for me. My encoding (View --> Encoding) is set to UTF-8. I have a feeling you have an addon or some other issue causing this, αΩ.

[alphaomega]

V.T. Eric Layton, on 27 June 2012 - 11:39 PM, said:

I'm running FF 13.1 in Slackware64 13.37 Stable and that page renders perfectly for me. My encoding (View --> Encoding) is set to UTF-8. I have a feeling you have an addon or some other issue causing this, αΩ.

I'm running Firefox 13.0.1 in Slackware -current (up to date).
Tested the page in Firefox with add-ons disabled...same issue.
Same issue in Firefox in Windows with add-ons disabled.
I only have noscript in Firefox/Windows.
Have a couple of others in Firefox/Linux.

Edited by alphaomega, 27 June 2012 - 11:44 PM.

[crp]

looks just fine (though the content looked quite odd) in SeaMonkey 2.10.1 , OS W7.

but what does "strance" mean?    

[alphaomega]

crp, on 28 June 2012 - 03:03 AM, said:

but what does "strance" mean?

I meant to type "strange"...
but I could not go back and edit the topic.

@everyone...Thanks for the feedback.

And wouldn't you know it...
I just checked the page again in FIrefox/Linux...
and it is displaying correctly.

Edited by alphaomega, 28 June 2012 - 09:39 AM.

[securitybreach]

alphaomega, on 28 June 2012 - 09:36 AM, said:

II just checked the page again in FIrefox/Linux...
and it is displaying correctly.

So what did you do to fix it?

[ross549]

Maybe the webmaster fixed it.

Adam

[securitybreach]

ross549, on 28 June 2012 - 11:24 AM, said:

Maybe the webmaster fixed it.

Adam

Nope as it does not work here on Firefox. I mainly use Chrome but I was wondering what the issue was/is.

[alphaomega]

securitybreach, on 28 June 2012 - 10:04 AM, said:

So what did you do to fix it?

Nothing.

ross549, on 28 June 2012 - 11:24 AM, said:

Maybe the webmaster fixed it.

Adam

That is what I was thinking...
that maybe someone had reported the issue seeing is
they might have been getting more traffic because of the program.

securitybreach, on 28 June 2012 - 11:37 AM, said:

Nope as it does not work here on Firefox. I mainly use Chrome but I was wondering what the issue was/is.

Weird that it did not work last night in either Firefox (linux/windows) but does today...
is it possible that the page is routed through a server that does not support UTF-8?

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Still working fine for me. Very strange... or strance, as the case may be.

[ross549]

There, I fixed the title for you guys....

Adam

[V.T. Eric Layton]

ross549, on 28 June 2012 - 01:10 PM, said:

There, I fixed the title for you guys....

Adam

Oh, man! Now that makes my previous reply nonsensical.

[sunrat]

Works fine here, Iceweasel 10.0.5.
Nasty story by the way. Makes me glad I don't have kids.