Translate.org.za Development Blog

A rather strange and spurious bug in the Afrikaans Firefox has a fix, we’re just waiting for approval.

For those who must know the bug worked a bit like this… If the page you where wanting to view didn’t have an encoding set then Firefox tries the default encoding as set for your language. In Afrikaans we use ISO-8859-1. The only problem is it was specified as ‘ISO 8859-1′ - not the missing dash before 8859.

Thanks go to Schalk Heunis who gave us a report that allowed us to start the search.

The fix should go into Firefox 2.0.0.4 for Afrikaans. We hope to point you to some nightly builds to check the fix for us.

You can also fix it in your current version by doing the following:

• Browse to: about:config
• Search for: intl.charset.default
• Change it t: ISO-8859-1 (note the dash, the current entry has a space)

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