Firefox 3.6.3 Character Encoding

[bibblebub]

When I try to display some pages in Firefox e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucharest I get this type of error...

Unicode Character 'Ş' cannot be encoded using standard URL encoding.
(URL encoding only supports 8-bit characters.)
A space (+) will be substituted.

... popping up for as many times as the page needs it. Yet if I display that page in Google Chrome 4.1.249.1064 there are no problems, but both are using Western (150-8859-1) encoding. (IE7 with default settings also has no problem with the page).

So any suggestions for why Firefox has a problem, and what change of setting would be advisable?

Thank in advance.

[bibblebub]

^^^ of course that should be Western (ISO-8859-1)

[ChuckFickens]

enter about:config into the address bar of firefox, click ok to get past the warning and then look for network:enableIDN and set it to true.

However, doing so is a massive security risk! do so at your own peril.

[ChuckFickens]

hmmm, looking again, that URL in your example does not include any unicode characters, be very very careful as you may be infected with a browser redirector. might be a good time to run a full malware scan on your computer.

[rojash]

Try View/Character Encoding/Autodetect/Universal.
If I view the page using 150-8859-1, I get gibberish for that character.
If I turn on Autodetect/Universal, it displays fine.
It also displays ok if autodetect is turned off but UTF8 is selected as the default encoding.

[bibblebub]

Unfortunately enableIDN is already set to true, and a quick test shows that that setting being either true or false makes no difference.

I did a Malwarebytes' full scan just a couple of days ago (it found nothing) however this is not a new problem, it's been appearing for months at least. But it only occurs with a few pages of Wikipedia and I think that it's only ever happened with a handful of other sites. So it's only a minor irritation that I just thought I'd ask about now.

Thanks for replying, Chuck.

[bibblebub]

rojash - I've tried those combinations of settings and it worked with one of them but I'm not sure which so I'm going to wait till I come across a page that has just a couple of encoding problems before I play around with those settings. That page I gave requires 17 clicks to display, and it has become rapidly annoying having to do that every time I try a new setting.

So thanks for your answer.