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can't display cp850 charset

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etlweather
etlweather

I have some HTML file generated by an old software. It writes files in cp850 (aka ibm850). It puts this at the top of the file:

<HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=ibm850">

The file is itself writing to disk using cp850 encoding (i.e. if I open it in Notepad++ for example, it's properly recognized as such).

In Internet Explorer, this file shows properly. In Firefox 46, I get some wrong characters. For example, I get ÄÄ instead of ──.

I tried various aliases for IBM850 per the Mozilla CharSet Aliases document, but none worked.

Is that a problem in Firefox? Or is that a problem with the HTML? Is there a way to solve this?

I have some HTML file generated by an old software. It writes files in cp850 (aka ibm850). It puts this at the top of the file: <HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=ibm850"> The file is itself writing to disk using cp850 encoding (i.e. if I open it in Notepad++ for example, it's properly recognized as such). In Internet Explorer, this file shows properly. In Firefox 46, I get some wrong characters. For example, I get ÄÄ instead of ──. I tried various aliases for IBM850 per the Mozilla CharSet Aliases document, but none worked. Is that a problem in Firefox? Or is that a problem with the HTML? Is there a way to solve this?

Chosen solution

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296306

Support was dropped 4 years ago... great.

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Oxylatium
Oxylatium

You should open a bug report on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ in the component "DOM: Core & HTML" (don't forget to attach an example html file to reproduce the issue)

Modified by Oxylatium

etlweather
etlweather Question owner

Chosen Solution

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296306

Support was dropped 4 years ago... great.