291521 - mail: font anomaly in UTF-mails

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Oliver Prygotzki]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050421
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050421

when displaying mails with UTF-charset, the fonts are messed up.

My font pref: Monospace font (ProFont).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Oliver Prygotzki]

Attachment: Testmail (message/rfc822)

Comment 2

[Oliver Prygotzki]

Attachment: Screenshot

The screenshot was taken after loading a saved mail (EML) into the Mozilla
browser. Note the different fonts. The wrong rendering of umlauts is an other
bug.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Ray Booysen]

*** Bug 323747 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Ray Booysen]

Reopening as duplicate was filed today.

Comment 7

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

jshin: Do you know if there is a already exististing bug like this one here (i think you might know :)? I find it somewhat hard to believe noone noticed this Unicode issue before (except this one here and the dupe).

Comment 8

[Jungshik Shin]

There are two problems in the screenshot attached. The first is that multiple fonts are used to result in  'ransom-note' style rendering. The second is that characters with accents encoded in UTF-8 are rendered as if they're in ISO-8859-1

I bet the second is a user mistake if the reporter has this problem in mail window/thunderbird.  The default encoding for a folder is set to ISO-8859-1 (which is fine) and 'ignore the character encoding specification in the mail header and always use this encoding' is also set for the folder.

If the above guess is wrong, I need to take a closer look at it.
 

Comment 9

[Rotis]

Attachment: Courier & Monaco fonts in UTF mail in Thunderbird 1.5 Mac

This bug appears in all incoming UTF mails or in sent UTF mails in the Sent folder.

Comment 10

[Kyle Guinn]

I can confirm this on Seamonkey 1.0.2 in Linux.  All lines, even those without UTF-8 characters, are displayed in Courier instead of the preferred font.

This bug appeared since upgrading from Mozilla 1.7.11, but old e-mails that were downloaded before upgrading are displayed with the correct font.

Comment 11

[Kyle Guinn]

> This bug appeared since upgrading from Mozilla 1.7.11, but old e-mails that
> were downloaded before upgrading are displayed with the correct font.

My mistake on this comment, I was looking at a non-UTF-8 message.  Old e-mails are  also displayed with the wrong font.

Plain text attachments are also affected by this bug.  An ISO-8859-1 message with a text file attachment has only the attachment rendered in the wrong font.

Comment 12

[Konrad Büssow]

I have a similar problem with Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 and Windows. When I receive a plain-text UTF-8 mail (Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"), it is displayed in a different font than iso-8859-1 encoded mails. 
I prefer to read plain-text mails in a proportional, sans serif font (verdana). This works fine, but UTF-8 mails are displayed with a huge verdana font.
This bug was also reported in the   alt.os.linux.mandrake news group, "Thunderbird, Mandrake 10.1, and seeing large fonts for UTF-8".
http://groups.google.de/group/alt.os.linux.mandrake/browse_thread/thread/beeb13b44661f5e0/81250fc70570a1fa?#81250fc70570a1fa

Comment 13

[lenochod]

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9?

Comment 14

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

The original bug here is gone (the testcase is fine on thunderbird/trunk). 
->WFM

What a lot of people really want is bug 91190.

Comment 15

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

(People in this bug report, that is.)