Bug#702017: epiphany-browser: Character encoding in HTML via http-equiv is unreliable

[Stephan Suerken]

Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 3.4.2-2.1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

http://stephan-suerken.de/tmp/epiphany-char-encoding/fails.html

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Char-encoding given via http-equiv in the HTML is not used,
umlaut 'ue' not shown correctly.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

http://stephan-suerken.de/tmp/epiphany-char-encoding/works.html

Character shown correctly. The difference of these two HTML
files is just in the length of the comment, so this should give
a hint.

This bevaviour is consistent in all versions of epiphany I
know. Explicitely retested now with current versions in squeeze
(2.30.6-1), sid (3.4.2-2.1) and experimental (3.6.1-2).

Hope this helps!

Stephan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                   1.6.8-1
ii  epiphany-browser-data      3.4.2-2.1
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.4.0-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.4.2-3
ii  iso-codes                  3.41-1
ii  libavahi-client3           0.6.31-1
ii  libavahi-common3           0.6.31-1
ii  libavahi-gobject0          0.6.31-1
ii  libc6                      2.13-38
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.2-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.26.1-1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1      1.32.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgnome-keyring0          3.4.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.4.2-6
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.8-2
ii  libnotify4                 0.7.5-2
ii  libnspr4                   2:4.9.5-1
ii  libnss3                    2:3.14.2-1
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.30.0-1
ii  libseed-gtk3-0             3.2.0-2
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.1-2
ii  libsoup-gnome2.4-1         2.38.1-2
ii  libsoup2.4-1               2.38.1-2
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.7.15.2-1
ii  libwebkitgtk-3.0-0         1.8.1-3.4
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxml2                    2.8.0+dfsg1-7
ii  libxslt1.1                 1.1.26-14

Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20130119
pn  evince           <none>
pn  yelp             <none>

Versions of packages epiphany-browser suggests:
pn  epiphany-extensions  <none>

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