1401702 - "§" is not correctly transmitted as Part of Password

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 312593

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[kk]

Attachment: Wireshark Dump

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0
Build ID: 20170824053622

Steps to reproduce:

I used "§" as part of my Password used for IMAP authentication.

See attached Picture. I entered !"§$%&/ as my Password. In the Wireshark Window you can see what got transmitted.

I firstly encountered this Problem in an older Seamonkey Version.


Actual results:

"§" got translated to "\247"


Expected results:

Should have been transmitted as "§"

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Sadly TB can only handle ASCII characters in passwords, § is not in the ASCII table.

Comment 2

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Please try a Daily build of 24th Sept 2017 or later to see whether this works now. I can't test it since my provider only allows ASCII passwords including 0-9!$%()=?+#-.:~*@[]_