https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656411
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656411#c2
--- Comment #2 from Robert Kaiser 2010-12-06 13:54:00 UTC ---
The real problem is that there are a ton more iso-8859-1, iso-5589-15, or
windows-1252 sites out there that forget to declare a charset than those that
are utf-8 and forget to declare it. If your web server correctly sends the
charset your pages are designed in, our you're at least specifying a fitting
http-equiv meta directive in your HTML page if the server doesn't send a
charset, then things are done correctly.
I've been working with having my browser set to default to utf-8 for quite some
time, and esp. on German-language sites I often encounter garbled content that
works correctly when set to iso-8859-1 (where we automatically detect and
correctly resolve windows-1252 as well, by the way). OTOH, as almost all
browsers come set some latin1 charset variation by default, there's almost no
site out there that expects to be rendered in utf-8 and doesn't declare it.
Of course, it would be nicer if the world would default to utf-8 andthat would
come natural to all the so-called "web designers" and other
not-unicode-aware-thinking website creators. Practice tells us that this utopia
is still subject to the future, though.
So, I'd propose WONTFIX here, if you expect uft-8 as default, set it this way
yourself for your system.
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