153393 - unicode not displayed from hotmail

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[u32858]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020605
BuildID:    2002060511

unicode not displayed from hotmail email

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.check attatchment
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Actual Results:  see it comes out like
皆さんＫＯＮ&#65326

Expected Results:  should be in japanese i think, or some other asian language

Comment 1

[u32858]

Attachment: example unicode email

example unicode email form hotmail

Comment 2

[nhottanscp]

The message was sent as text/plain. 
Those NCR may be used if text/html.

Comment 3

[u32858]

So should mozilla detect this and display it anyway? to retain compatibility?

JG

Comment 4

[nhottanscp]

I don't think so. 
If I use Japanse UI on Hotmail, the message is sent correctly with ISO-2022-JP.

Does hotmail provide bug reporting system?

Comment 5

[u32858]

I dont use hotmail, perhaps this could be auto detected as hotmail often sends
messages like this to me. (hotmail.com)

Compatibility with buggy implementations of the standards are essential IMO.

JG

shall i re-open? 

Comment 6

[ji]

It's not our bug. Our client doesn't do anything wrong. 

Comment 7

[ji]

This mail can't be viewed using Outlook Express either.

Comment 8

[u32858]

Hi Ji,
I agree that Mozilla is correct on this issue, but maintaining wider
compatibility is also a major issue as eveyrone else does not follow standards
as well.

I have recived several emails like this from hotmail for example, the japanese
auto detect does not detect this problem and the only soltion is to save the eml
file, edit text/plain to text/html.

Is this decision final now?
JG

Comment 9

[u32858]

> ------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2002-06-21 12:04 -------
> This mail can't be viewed using Outlook Express either.

Does it display with IE?

JG

Comment 10

[nhottanscp]

It is better if the problem is solved by server side. It would fix the problem
at once for any clients. Doing the workaround would complicate the client code
may produce new bugs or slowing down the performance.
As I noted before, Hotmail does not send NCR as plain text as long as the native
Hotmail UI is used.

Comment 11

[ji]

It doesn't display on IE 6 either with auto-detector turned on Japanese.