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Bug 243708
Opened 21 years ago
Updated 3 years ago
when replying to an html message sent by MS OE, Mozilla drops 'charset' parameter in meta tag inside <blockquote>
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
NEW
People
(Reporter: jshin1987, Unassigned)
Details
(Keywords: intl)
This is hardly a bug of mozilla, but still it gets in the way of promoting
Mozilla-mail/Thunderbird to those the majority of whose correspondents use MS OE.
When replying to a message like 'case A' (sent by MS OE), Mozilla produces the
html body like case B. If you look at case B carefully, Mozilla makes it clear
that the charset used is UTF-8 in two places (Content-Type header of the message
part and 'the outer most' meta tag of the html body). However, it doesn't inside
'<blockquote>'. Somehow, it drops 'charset=UTF-8' inside <blockquote> as
reproduced here again:
<blockquote cite="mid000c01c43ac0$cefd5fe0$b81ef88f@aragorn" type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ">
Unfortunately, MS OE picks up the 'inner most' declaration (inside <blockquote>)
and interprets the message body not as UTF-8 but as something else (that seems
to be the default 'mail view encoding'
Two fixes can be considered: 1) excluse everything that comes before <body> when
blockquoting. However, that may be risky. 2) do not drop 'charset=UTF-8' inside
<blockquote>
case A:
--------Cut------------Here--------
------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C43B0C.3EDB6AF0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
=EA=B0=80=EB=82=98=EB=8B=A4=E3=85=8F=EB=9D=BC=EB=A7=8812334434343=EA=B0=80=
=EB=82=98=EB=8B=A4=EB=9E=84
------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C43B0C.3EDB6AF0
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
=EF=BB=BF<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8">
<META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.3790.118" name=3DGENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD><FONT face=3DArial><FONT size=3D2>
<BODY>
<DIV>=EA=B0=80=EB=82=98=EB=8B=A4=E3=85=8F=EB=9D=BC=EB=A7=8812334434343=EA=
=B0=80=EB=82=98=EB=8B=A4=EB=9E=84</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML></FONT></FONT>
------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C43B0C.3EDB6AF0--
--------Cut------------Here--------
case B :
-------Cut------Here------------
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
bioif(imap4) wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid000c01c43ac0$cefd5fe0$b81ef88f@aragorn" type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ">
<meta content="MSHTML 6.00.3790.118" name="GENERATOR">
<style></style>
<font face="Arial"><font size="2">
...... 8bit body omitted here....
--------Cut------------Here--------
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Comment 1•21 years ago
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<blockquote cite="mid000c01c43ac0$cefd5fe0$b81ef88f@aragorn" type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ">
<meta content="MSHTML 6.00.3790.118" name="GENERATOR">
<style></style>
We send that out? That's severely broken, <meta> is a a <head> tag, not for
<body>. MS is just right to think that the msg doesn't make sense and fall back
to default.
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Comment 2•21 years ago
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(In reply to comment #1)
> We send that out? That's severely broken, <meta> is a a <head> tag, not for
> <body>.
Ok, it's broken and we should fix it.
> MS is just right to think that the msg doesn't make sense and
> fall back to default.
However, I'd not say they're right either. Neither are they wrong. The way
they parse text/html part (they could just ignore the innermost meta tag
because, as you wrote, it doesn't belong there and just honor one of outer
charset type declarations) happens to be 'incompatible' with Mozilla's (broken)
way of quoting a 'html' message in an html message.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
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Updated•21 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
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Assignee | |
Updated•17 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
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Comment 4•13 years ago
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does this still reproduce?
Assignee: jshin1987 → nobody
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
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Updated•3 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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