12220 - Reply quoted HTML message includes incorrect META charset UTF-8

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Description

[nhottanscp]

In reply quoted HTML message (I haven't tried plain text), META charset UTF-8 is
always included. According to Rich, it's generated by libmime to identify the
charset of the quoting text which is filed to a disk before it is used.
The actual message is sent out as Content-type: charset not UTF-8. Other than
the inconsistency, sending out this type of message may confuse other clients.
For example, in 4.5, I occasionally see the text turns to square boxes when I
read this message.

Comment 1

[nhottanscp]

Attachment: Reply message sent by 5.0.

Comment 2

[nhottanscp]

Attachment: Screen shot of the problem in 4.5.

Comment 3

[nhottanscp]

Attachment: Another 4.5 problem, other message also affected by the UTF-8 META messsage.

Comment 4

[nhottanscp]

My last .jpg attachment, the garbase may look different depends on the font
setting of the unicode (in 4.5).

Comment 5

[Phil Peterson]

Reassign to rhp

Comment 6

[Phil Peterson]

M14

Comment 7

[rhp (gone)]

Bulk change to assigned.

- rhp

Comment 8

[pmock]

changing QA assigned to [e-mail]

Comment 9

[rhp (gone)]

This has been fixed. We now convert to UCS-2 before quoting. No more META tags.

- rhp

Comment 10

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

** Checked with 11/9/99 Win32 build (1999110911) **

I've tried several different language messages and sent Reply
msgs wuoting the original text. None of the msgs contained
UTF-8 Meta Tag within the HTML text body. There is no longer a
display problem as reported by nhhotta earlier.

Marking the fixe verified.