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Bug 366833 - Help viewer does not read HTML 5 charset notation
Summary: Help viewer does not read HTML 5 charset notation
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Whiteboard: stalebug
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Reported: 2011-12-15 11:54 EST by Stefan Springer CLA
Modified: 2019-11-14 03:47 EST (History)
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Description Stefan Springer CLA 2011-12-15 11:54:41 EST
Build Identifier: M20110909-1335

If the charset of the Help pages is written as recommended in http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#document-metadata / http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/#charset0 :

<meta charset="utf-8"/>

then words with non-ASCII characters that are not written as Unicode character references or HTML entities (e.g. "Ärgerlich") will not be found by full text search, and the decriptions of the full text search results might have strange characters.

No problem if written as:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

As "all" browsers understand <meta charset="utf-8"/>, eclipse should be able to read it, too.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Help page in UTF-8 encoding.
2. Containing word with non-ASCII characters in UTF-8 encoding
2. Encoding specified via <meta charset="utf-8"/>
3. Full text search: search the word
-> Page not listed in search results
Comment 1 Lars Vogel CLA 2019-11-14 03:47:51 EST
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

If the bug is still relevant, please remove the "stalebug" whiteboard tag.