Bug#365886: epiphany-browser: Cannot display contents correctly with GBK encoding

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:44:49PM +0800, Hongzheng Wang <wanghz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Could you give examples of such webpages ? (i.e urls)

Mike