159692 - UTF-8 is used for viewing newsgroup posts despite of header specs

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Guillaume Cocatre-Zilgien]

Mozilla 1.1 beta

UTF-8 charset has been used on a systematic basis when viewing newsgroup posts,
depite of the charset specification in the headers of the posts, resulting in a
bad display of iso-8859-1 characters. The headers of the one message I took a
screenshot of were the following :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:0.9.4)
Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1
X-Accept-Language: fr-fr
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: fr.comp.infosystemes.www.navigateurs
Subject: Question aux =?ISO-8859-1?Q?d=E9veloppeurs?= de mozilla
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

That bug happened on *every* single message, but only during *one* single
session. Closing the mozilla mail component and launching it back resolved the
issue. I cannot reproduce the bug.

Comment 1

[marina]

Guillaume, does it happen only for newsgroup viewing or for your Inbox as well?
On the english system with the english version i don't see this problem in this
particular newsgroup. Let me install the french version 6.2.1 and i'll see if i
can reproduce this bug. What are your default settings for viewing mail? Thanks.

Comment 2

[Guillaume Cocatre-Zilgien]

It only happened for newgroup viewing, not for my inboxes. I'm using Mozilla
1.1b (english) on a french version of Win98 SE. I use iso-8859-1 as the default
charset for viewing messages, and I do NOT apply it to all messages (no override
of the MIME header).

I stress the fact that the bug happened only once and that I cannot reproduce
it. Could it be related to the OS ?

Comment 3

[marina]

Guillaume, i used the localized FR WinXP, the build you used and i subscribed to
the same newsgroup. I do not see a problem with viewing, the default charset
points to Western-8859-1 and i can view the message body just fine. To keep this
bug alive i need reproducable steps and consistency, the fact that it happened
only once won't suffice...If the cause were the OS then my understanding is that
it would  be happening on a consistent basis. I can not confirm this bug, if you
see it again and can submit the reproducable scenario then we'll look into it,
otherwise i think it's invalid.

Comment 4

[marina]

i am verifying this as WFM. Guillaume, please feel free to reopen if you are
still seeing this.

Comment 5

[marina]

verified as such, please re-open if you see the problem again