Bug#365886: epiphany-browser: Cannot display contents correctly
with GBK encoding
Hongzheng Wang
wanghz at gmail.com
Wed May 3 14:44:49 UTC 2006
Subject: epiphany-browser: Cannot display contents correctly with GBK encoding
Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 2.14.1-1
Severity: normal
Hello,
Although not standardized as national standard, Chinese Simplified
(GBK) is widely used in simplified chinese area, such as mainland of
China. Due to the fact that, the former national standard of China
GB2312 has only about six thousand chinese characters, many web pages
have to be decoded with GBK encoding, otherwise some chinese
characters will be displayed as black diamonds. In fact, GB2312 is a
subset of GBK, and both of these encodings are compatible with ASCII.
But I find the current version of epiphany-browser cannot support GBK
correctly. Even a web page encoded totally with GB2312 cannot be
displayed correctly with GBK. I also tested GB18030 encoding, which
is the current national standard of China and is a superset of GB2312
and GBK. The text encoding of GB18030 works properly.
So, let me conclude. A web page encoded with GB2312 can be decoded
correctly with both GB2312 and GB18030; a web page with GB18030 can
only be decoded correctly partly with GB2312 if there are some chinese
characters out of the scope of GB2312. But all these pages can not be
decoded with GBK.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii gconf2 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii gnome-icon-theme 2.14.2-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii iso-codes 0.51-1 ISO language, territory, currency
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.11.4-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.9-8+b1 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.9-8+b1 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.9-8+b1 Avahi glib integration library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.0.4-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-2 0.61-5 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.61-5 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) -
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.0-1+b1 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.2-1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.2-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.14.1.1-1 Utility library for loading .deskt
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.9-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.14.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.12.1-3 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.12.1-3 GNOME 2.2 print architecture User
ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.14.1-1 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii libgnutls13 1.3.5-1+b1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgpg-error0 1.2-1 library for common error values an
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.17-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-12 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libmozjs0d 1.8.0.1-8 The Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScrip
ii libnspr4-0d 1.8.0.1-8 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.0-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.1-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management library
ii libstartup-notification0 0.8-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libstdc++6 4.1.0-1+b1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtasn1-2 1:0.2.17-2 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:3.0.1.2-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.24.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.15-5 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii libxul0d 1.8.0.1-8 Gecko engine library
ii python2.3 2.3.5-9.1 An interactive high-level object-o
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends:
ii epiphany-extensions 2.14.1-1 Extensions for Epiphany web browse
ii yelp 2.14.1-1 Help browser for GNOME 2
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Hongzheng Wang
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