Bug 302509

Summary:	Spurious â characters displayed on www.ubuntu.com
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	Graeme Hewson <bugs>
Component:	khtml	Assignee:	Konqueror Bugs <konqueror-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	cfeck
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.8.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Screenshot of http://www.ubuntu.com/download

Description Graeme Hewson 2012-06-25 14:34:36 UTC

Created attachment 72127 [details]
Screenshot of http://www.ubuntu.com/download

On various pages in ubuntu.com, such as http://www.ubuntu.com/download, spurious characters are displayed. See attachment, which shows, for instance "Ubuntu Desktop â-o", where "-o" is superscript. http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop shows, as another example, "â⁻¢ How to run Ubuntu from a CD or USB stick â⁻o".

Rekonq and Firefox don't display these spurious characters.

The characters are not in the HTML source code. If text is selected with the mouse, they are not contained in the clipboard. They are displayed whether the rendering engine is KHTML or WebKit. View / Set Encoding is Default. Changing the encoding to something else doesn't alter the characters.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2012-06-25 17:40:24 UTC

Here with WebKit rendering engine, those characters are rendered similar to a '>' char. It probably is specified in some of the CSS files.

Comment 2 Graeme Hewson 2012-08-15 08:21:22 UTC

Problem has gone. I guess it was the CSS files, then, as Christoph Feck suggested.

Comment 3 Graeme Hewson 2012-08-15 08:50:36 UTC

However, a little while after I posted my previous comment, Konqueror crashed. After restarting it, another rendering problem I was experiencing disappeared (temporarily), and this problem reappeared. Re-opening ticket.

Comment 4 Graeme Hewson 2012-08-15 13:37:34 UTC

I can reproduce the problem after renaming ~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc and ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/, so all settings are the default.

Problem is only present with KHTML. However, if browser engine config is changed from KHTML to WebKit, spurious characters are still displayed after page refresh; it's necessary to start a new instance of Konqueror before WebKit displays page correctly.

Currently using Konqueror 4.8.5.

Comment 5 Graeme Hewson 2013-10-15 09:45:02 UTC

Problem is no longer present.