178432 - accents are transformed into strange codes in all messages after clicking on a swf link in a message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 110729

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

Build 2002103004 WinXP

Steps to reproduce the bug
1 send to yourself an email with a link to a swf file,
http://home.attbi.com/~n9ivo/whatswrong.swf for instance
2 send to yourself a message containing accents such as 
é
à
è
ô
û
ö
ï 

3 Open the message with the accents, note that they are displayed correctly
4 Open the second message with the lonk, click on the link to the swf file in
MailNews, the swf file gets displayed in the message window
5 reopen the message with the accents, they are displayed like this:
é
à 
è
ô
û
ö
ï 

All messages in all my mailboxes now display wrongly accentuated characters. The
only way to get them displayed correctly (on a message per message basis) is to
force Charset coding to UTF8

Hee are the header lines concerning coding for the test message with the accents:

X-Accept-Language: en, fr-fr, en-gb, es-es
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Comment 1

[marina]

dup of bug # 110729?

Comment 2

[Jean-Michel BARBET]

I could reproduce this bug on Linux RedHat 7.3 with updated mozilla packages :
mozilla-1.2.1-0_rh7
mozilla-mail-1.2.1-0_rh7
nautilus-mozilla-1.0.6-16
[...]
Changing Character encodig to UTF-8 for the message with accents leads to
the correct display.

Jean-Michel BARBET.

Comment 3

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

setting OS to ALL following Jean-Michel's comment

Comment 4

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

this was indeed a dupe of bug 110729, it is now fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110729 ***