Bug 106554

Version:           3.4.0 (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc (GCC) 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5.20050130-r1, ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie-8.7.7.1) 
OS:                Linux

Konqueror/3.4.0 doesn't conform to CSS/2.1 standard as defined in http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#q23 - section about encoding (character set) of external CSS style. Suppose we have HTML page written in UTF-8 (server sends "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8") which referrs to CSS in external file on the same server. It's clearly illustrated in http://dev.gentoo.org/~neysx/wwwgo/index.xml.html which referrs to http://dev.gentoo.org/~neysx/wwwgo/css/main.css . Later is also in UTF-8, but the server doesn't specify the "charset" part of Content-Type header. According to the CSS/2.1 specs, correct behaviour would be to:

1) An HTTP "charset" parameter in a "Content-Type" field (or similar parameters in other protocols) - not usable in this case

2) BOM and/or @charset (see below) - also doesn't apply

3) <link charset=""> or other metadata from the linking mechanism (if any)
charset of referring stylesheet or document (if any) - this should be used, but isn't - se below

4) Assume UTF-8 - fallback, but should *not* happen as it would break a lot of pages, IMHO


So, to the point 3 - you should use the same encoding as the HTML page has, which is UTF-8, in this case. But current behavior is that if you have set (in browser prefs) anything else as a "default codepage", it is used, which is bad.

Why is this important? In that particular case, external CSS sheet is used to add "content:" property to the links in the left hand column, which should result in a nice arrow before each link. But because konqueror uses other encoding for CSS file parsing, user doesn't see arrow, but some garbage characters. I can provide screenshot.