I'm forwarding an email from the debian-user list since I've noticed the same behaviour before but never bothered to take it up on this list. What is happening? What is ephy "doing wrong"? Is it fixed in 2.16? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus therning org Jabber: magnus therning gmail com http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. In order to understand recursion you must first understand recursion.
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- From: KS <lists04 fastmail fm>
- To: Debian User <debian-user lists debian org>
- Subject: Re: punctuation in Epiphany
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:02:56 -0400
Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. On some pages, quotation marks and apostrophes are not rendered > with Epiphany browser on my computer. Most frequently this occurs on > large sites which use a content management system of some sort. For > example, the Toronto Star's site, at www.thestar.com. The cover-page is > fine, but links to the various stories are not properly displayed by > Epiphany. I use Epiphany version 2.14.2.1, on Etch. > > Is there a way to correct this? A package I could install, or > something? Note, these pages display fine on Firefox, but I prefer > Epiphany. > > Mark > > Now that you point it out I see the problem too when using Epiphany 2.14.3 (Sid). There are some "UTF" like codes which are displayed. The codes change to "normal" characters when the Text Encoding is changed to "Western (Windows-1252)" from the one detected by default - Western (ISO-8859-1). Firefox shows normal text for the ISO-8859-1 encoding (the default content-type for the HTML page - see source). But if you change the encoding UTF-8 or ISO-8859-15 in Firefox, you will notice the same weird behaviour for some of the punctuation marks. It seems that Epiphany is using the same character encoding for ISO-8859-1 as ISO-8859-15. Does Epiphany being based on Gecko have anything to do with character encoding being used/displayed? I'm no expert on this, but thought that this should be pointed out as Epiphany in Etch is not the only version showing the odd behaviour. /kS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST lists debian org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster lists debian org
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