1113511 - Special characters (like German umlauts) not showing correctly when opening e-mails for the first time

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1287336

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Edwin Hartmann]

Dear Sir or Madam,

my problem is about the German umlauts (ä, ö, ü) in e-mails that I receive. The umlauts aren't shown correctly, when I open received e-mails the first time. When I close the e-mails and open them a second time the umlauts are shown correctly. I don't know how to get rid of that bug.
All the instructions I found in the internet about that problem didn't help me. The problem still exists. I think several other users of  Thunderbird know that problem, too. Otherwise they wouldn't write about it in the internet.

Yours sicerely

Edwin Hartmann

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

I have seen cases where umlauts in UTF-8 encoded e-mail didn't show correctly when opening an e-mail.
Sadly I could never reproduce this problem in a predictable fashion as the e-mail would display correctly upon repeated opening.

I have also seen cases where replying didn't show the special characters correctly, sadly also not reproducible.

Can the reporter supply a reproducible case?

Comment 2

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

I think this has nothing to do with first opening a new message.
I've just opened an old sent UTF-8 encoded message and saw this:
===
... das ausgefüllte Formular ... schon für wichtig.
Für einen weiteren Anruf wäre ich daher dankbar.
===
Switching to another tab and then returning to this tab already fixed the erroneous display.

Yes, it happens at random but it will be hard to fix without a reproducible case.

Comment 4

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

I've changed my mind, let's forward duplicate that since the other bug has more details.