Re: [tlug] Re: Strange encoding problem in FireFox

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@example.com>]

On 02/05/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> Dave M G writes:
>
>  > Jim Breen wrote:
>  > > ... it looks like your font for JIS (EUC/Shift_JIS/etc.) may be
>  > > corrupted.
>  >
>  > I think you've nailed it. I went to WWWJDIC, used the customization
>  > option to set the encoding to utf8, and the problem disappeared.
>
> It would be useful to know what the setting was before, and what
> Firefox was detecting it as.

Yes, that used to be found in "View/Page Info" but it vanished in a
recent u/g to Firefox.

> AFAIK, there are no "fonts for JIS" any more; everything is done with
> TrueType fonts which are Unicode-based.  With Type1 fonts you might
> have CID indexes, but those aren't used much any more.  Do you see a
> difference in the font used for the characters that are correct?
>
> It's possible that the translation table used to convert JIS to
> Unicode got corrupted somehow, but this looks like an algorithmic
> problem, and the fact that half-width kana are involved just stinks of
> Shift-JIS breakage.

WWWJDIC defaults to EUC-JP, but that doesn't preclude some leakage
if a table has got corrupted.

I know it sounds very Microsofty, but maybe reinstalling Firefox
would help.

Jim

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Jim Breen
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/