162139 - incorrect characters shown (charset=SEN_850200_B)

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Brant Gurganus]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020802
BuildID:    20020802

The incorrect charachers are shown in an email from [e-mail] with a subject of "EM1.1.1" without the quotation marks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send an email to [e-mail] with a subject of "EM1.1.1" or use the URL.
Actual Results:  
The message received displays incorrect characters.

Expected Results:  
The message should display the correct characters.

Sample message source:
From - Sun Aug 11 00:30:01 2002
X-UIDL: B0001717176.MSG
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-path: <[e-mail]>
Received: from above.proper.com (unverified [208.184.76.45]) by UV-SERVER02.ultravision.net
 (Vircom SMTPRS 5.1.202) with ESMTP id <[e-mail]> for <[e-mail]>;
 Sun, 11 Aug 2002 00:29:43 -0500
Received: by above.proper.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g7B5TWI10892;
	Sat, 10 Aug 2002 22:29:32 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 22:29:32 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
From: [e-mail]
To: Brant Langer Gurganus <[e-mail]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=SEN_850200_B
Subject: EM1.1.1

  EM1.1.1
	When receiving a MIME-message with character set SEN_850200_B the
	correct glyphs must be shown.


       This is swedish characters:

        LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE     ]
        LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS      [
        LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS      \
        LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE       }
        LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS        {
        LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS        |

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To intl.  I don't see "SEN_850200_B" in the charset alias file, so we likely
have no support for that charset.

Brant, what is the canonical name for this charset?

Comment 2

[Niklas Dougherty]

  &charset SEN_850200_B
  &rem source: ECMA registry
  &alias iso-ir-10
  &alias FI
  &alias ISO646-FI
  &alias ISO646-SE
  &alias se

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1345.html

http://www.nada.kth.se/~paf/MIME-tester.html

SEN_850200_B is a 7-bit version of ASCII, adapted for Swedish (three extra chars
in respective case). It is pretty obsolete (1980s) and is replaced by ISO-8859-1
since the mid 1990s.

http://www.nada.kth.se/sunet-mime/info-1.html (Swedish only) describes the 1994
recommendation to use 8-bit Latin-1 exclusively for Swedish internet messages.
Of course this is somewhat obsolete as well (Unicode will eventually replace
Latin-1), but reflects today's general usage.

Comment 3

[Brant Gurganus]

From the IANA registry at http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets:

Name: SEN_850200_B                                      [RFC1345,KXS2]
MIBenum: 35
Source: ECMA registry
Alias: iso-ir-10
Alias: FI
Alias: ISO646-FI
Alias: ISO646-SE
Alias: se
Alias: csISO10Swedish

Comment 4

[nhottanscp]

Reassign to ftang.

Comment 5

[Frank Tang]

this is a legecy charset which we don't and should not support. markt his bug as
won'tfix

Comment 6

[marina]

verified