1448373 - View source doesn't decode utf-8 properly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1017768

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[teo89765]

Attachment: Untitled.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.162 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

(I wonder if I selected the right component, and otherwise, which one I was supposed to select)

I selected a received email and clicked on "View Source"


Actual results:

The body of the email contains utf8 characters and is properly encoded and declared as such. The non-ascii 2-byte utf-8 characters are displayed as 2-character sequences of garbage (see screenshot)


Expected results:

the correctly-encoded utf-8 characters in the source should be displayed correctly.

In the attached screenshot at the highlighted spot there should be a "é" instead of those two garbage characters.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

You will need to set the decoding in |View > Text Encoding, Unicode|. It's not automatic.

Comment 2

[php4fan]

I stumbled upon this bug again and was gonna report it, and found that I had already two fucking years ago.

You will need to set the decoding in |View > Text Encoding, Unicode|. It's not automatic.

Why should I need to do that, why shouldn't it be automatic, and why was this closed.
Pathetic.