Encoding problems/ iframe problems - kde 3.5.9 and 4.1

[Maksim Orlovich]

On Friday 01 August 2008 16:14:26 Spiros Georgaras wrote:
> Sorry for posting the same message again, it should have been in utf-8 all
> along....

Hi, and thanks for reporting this. First of all, let me say that we no longer 
work with the 3.5.x branch (actually, not with 4.0.x, either), so it'd be best 
to restrict the attention to 4.1 problems only.  I am not always 100% sure 
which one is which below, so please excuse me if I ask something stupid given 
my focus on 4.1

>
> ====================  Original message   ====================
> This is a problem I have with konqueror, accessing my web-banking account.
> The site's URL is https://www.winbank.gr/loginPortal/login.asp?Lang=GR
>
> The pages contain the following:
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1253">
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-7">
>
> Both firefox and konqueror (KDE 3.5.9) use windows-1253, and correctly
> display the page. The problem here is the way my name ("ΓΕΩΡΓΑΡΑΣ ΣΠΥΡΙ" in
> Greek) is interpreted/displayed by konqueror. This is what each browser
> "sees": Firefox: ΓΕΩΡΓΑΡΑΣ ΣΠΥΡΙ
> konqueror: %u0393%u0395%u03A9%u03A1%u0393%u0391%u03A1%u0391%u03A3
> %u03A3%u03A0%u03A5%u03A1%u0399

Is there any way of seeing this problem with the demo account (windemo/123) 
the website thankfully has?  Could you please give detailed instructions given 
that I don't speak Greek (and reading Greek alphabet for me is a convoluted 
exercise involving Cyrillic and math...)

>
>
> In KDE 4.1, konqueror reports the page as windows-1253, but
> login_files/MainAreaGR.htm, which is inside an iframe, is displayed using
> utf-8 (the default)

Just fixed that and a bunch of other encoding issues.

>
> Furthermore when I do login, I find I cannot follow links of this type
> javascript:Click('controlpanel/payments/010/step1.asp?Menu=YES&','Ιστορικό'
>.... (this is how I see it in konqueror KDE 3.5.9)
> In konqueror (KDE 4.1) it becomes:
> javascript:Click('controlpanel/payments/010/step1.asp?Menu=YES&','???????'.
>... which is invalid and unusable

Fixed that, too.

> I would be really glad to see either of these problems fixed

Well, at the very least your report got some of those (and a bunch of 
unrelated encoding bugs) fixed. Are you building from source / are you able to 
test recent fixes (I guess I should lookup those kde4live thingies, may be they 
could help)?

Thanks,
Maks