312540 - TB refuses to send simple Japanese mail in Shift_JIS claiming I use characters that the coding cannot encode

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 271508

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Václav Haisman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

TB claims that "The message you composed contains characters not found in the
selected Character Encoding,..." where the "selected Character Encoding" is
Shift_JIS. The same response is for ISO-2022-JP. The message doesn't imho use
any unusual kanji for it to complain. This box is English Windows XP with SP2. 

The message: 

もう一度、今SJISで。写真を送れてくれてありがとう。

長老


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Just try to type some Japanese email.

Comment 1

[Václav Haisman]

Btw, you need to view this page using UTF-8 to see the Japanese properly.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

have you tried tbird 1.5 beta 2?
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/1.5beta2.html

Comment 3

[Václav Haisman]

Nope. Maybe I will try it. If I do I will report back if the problem goes away.

Comment 4

[Václav Haisman]

I tried 1.5b2 and it complains too but it at least lets me "Send Anyway."

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The warning is probably displayed due to a character in your sig -- the accented 
'a' in "Václav" is not part of Shift-JIS nor ISO-2022-JP.
I believe there is already be a bug from someone with this exact same issue, but 
I can't locate it.

Comment 6

[Václav Haisman]

Hmm, I think you are could be right. I did not realise that the encoding
of the address and the encoding of the message is tied. Maybe it
shouldn't be  :) 

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

OK, found the dupe.  As I recommended there, using an identity such as 
"V. Haisman" when sending in Japanese would be a workaround.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 271508 ***