Re: Unsupported transport-layer encodings

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote:
> On Jun 13, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Philip Taylor wrote:
> > 
> >  Content-Type: text/html; charset=unsupported
> > 
> > what should a UA do?
> 
> For WebKit, ignoring the unsupported encoding name worked well until 
> recently. But right now, some localizations of GMail are relying on a 
> bizarre Firefox quirk where unsupported charset names are treated 
> differently for main resource and for subresources: 
> <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19913

I couldn't reproduce this:

   http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/http/encoding/005-iframe.html

Could you elaborate?

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