159295 - character coding is wrong for ISO-8859-1

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Kevin Cook]

Mail messages received encoded in ISO-8859-1 have the wrong accented characters.
 If I send myself an e-mail containing the word "déjà", the received e-mail
appears as "déjÃ" instead.

Attempting to force ISO-8859-1 coding via the View menu doesn't work, but
selecting Unicode in the View menu corrects the problem.

Interestingly, if I hit the Reply button, the characters appear correctly in the
quoted reply text.

Using build 2002072408 on Win 95.

Comment 1

[Jan Boehm]

I experience the same problem on Win2k. There seems to be a mix up of ISO-8859-1
and UTF-8.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

Comment 2

[Christian Franke]

Possibly related to mixing ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8: Bug 148369, Bug 158285.

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212]

It tried twice (both subject and body): it WFM...

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Kevin Cook, can you supply a message that shows the failure you describe?  (Save 
it as a .EML file, and attach it to this bug.)

From the description, it appears that the message you are receiving is in fact 
encoded in Unicode (UTF-8).  If you are getting this symptom in mail you send to 
yourself, the problem is in your composition settings, not in the view settings.

Comment 5

[Kevin Cook]

Whatever was happening has gone away.  Works for me now.  Thanks.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

=>WFM per reporter's comment 5