120693 - No way of composing with premade text containing characters that have 7th bit set (iso-8859-1/15)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Wouter Van Hemel]

When copying text containing 8-bit chars to a window composer window (such as
'e' with double dots), those characters show up as questionmarks.

I can't seem to find a way to insert a textfile into a mail (as body, not as an
attachment), or to compose a mail from a textfile. I'm pretty much stuck with
copying the text, and manually replacing the '?'-characters with their original
8bit-chars.

Copying from StarOffice, gedit, or a terminal window (aterm).

Comment 1

[wacheo]

wfm 2002072204 linux (1.1b).
reporter: do you still see this bug in a recent build?

Comment 2

[wacheo]

mark as worksforme due to lack of response from reporter.

reporter: please reopen if this still happens in a current build.

Comment 3

[Wouter Van Hemel]

Copy & Paste works now (Gtk2 benefit I guess). There is still no option to
insert the body directly from a text file, though... But this is not much of an
issue as long as Copy & Paste works.