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Finglish
Finglish

Reputation: 9956

Firefox 26 utf-8 encoding issues in facebook pagetab app

I am experiencing a very strange bug after updating my firefox to version 26 (on macbook pro with mountain lion). Although the headers have not changed, it is now failing to encode the utf-8 characters correctly. I tried several different header styles but still end up with the same problem:

My original header is somewhat old-school but it is working fine in every other browser.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

Even stranger is the fact that if I run the page tab app directly via its server url (outside of facebook and its pagetab iframe) the encoding works fine!!

I tried the strict doctype and html5 doctype tags, but the problem still remains!

If anyone has any ideas about whats going on I would be appreciate hearing them.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 728

Answers (1)

lehtu
lehtu

Reputation: 36

At least latest version of Firefox(26.0) complaints in console if you have too much stuff before introducing charset meta tag.

The character encoding declaration of document was found too late for it to take effect. The encoding declaration needs to be moved to be within the first 1024 bytes of the file.

So it could help if you move charset declaration right after opening -tag.

Upvotes: 1

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