Closed Bug 1837885 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Please stop using base 64 encoding when replying to a newsgroup posting

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
Thunderbird 102
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1837884

People

(Reporter: ToddAndMargo, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0

Steps to reproduce:

Please stop using base 64 encoding when replying to a newsgroup posting.

The original post from Thunderbird (and all other newsgroup readers) is in UTF-8, as it is suppose to be.

The reply from Thunderbird gets encoded in base 64.

This breaks other newgroup readers. And often gets you an angry response back.

Fedora 37
thunderbird-102.12.0-1.fc37.x86_64

Original post:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Replying to the above post:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

How can UTF-8 transfer with 7bit?

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Duplicate of bug: 1837884
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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