189767 - Erroneous presentation of international characters

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Luis Miguel Lagoa Baptista Ferro]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

The mail view window is showing incorrect oriental type caracters in a french
message signature.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Didn't tryed to reproduce due to the dificulty of doing such tests with acuracy.
Actual Results:  
The message shows with some oriental caracters.

Expected Results:  
I would expect the message to be present in the correct character set (some sort
of french characters)

The signature in my mozilla renders with oriental characters. My machine has w2k
with portuguese standard as regional settings.

------------------------------------ Starts here -------------------------------
X-UIDL: 339407496
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Received: from pb1.pair.com [216.92.131.4] by teladigital.net
  (SMTPD32-7.07) id AE9922D004C; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 03:08:57 -0500
Received: (qmail 1019 invoked by uid 1010); 20 Jan 2003 08:05:36 -0000
Mailing-List: contact [e-mail]; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
list-help: <mailto:[e-mail]>
list-unsubscribe: <mailto:[e-mail]>
list-post: <mailto:[e-mail]>
Delivered-To: mailing list [e-mail]
Received: (qmail 1003 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2003 08:05:34 -0000
Message-ID: <004401c2c05a$65c16d00$a24b3851@EFS>
From: "Ermelir" <[e-mail]>
Cc: <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>
<[e-mail]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:02:40 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="big5"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
To: <[e-mail]>
Subject: [PHP-WIN] encrypt a string with pgp...
X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for spam.
X-Spam-Tests-Failed: None
X-RCPT-TO: <[e-mail]>
Status: U
X-UIDL: 339407496

hello everybody,

I'm new on this mailing list and I hope you can help me. I search to encrypt
a string with the algorithm of pgp, for sending me a email and I can decrypt
it easyly.
but pgp under windows cannot be execute with a command line.
Have you a solution about it?
thanks

ermelir

_____________________________________________________________________
Envie de discuter en "live" avec vos amis ? Télécharger MSN Messenger
http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/m la 1ère messagerie instantanée de France

Comment 1

[timeless]

Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="big5"

Comment 2

[Shoshannah Forbes]

>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="big5"

In this line, the message declares itself as being in Chinese. Mozilla honores
this charset declaration, which caused it to display Chinese characters.

It seems like the sender has labled the message incorrectly.

It cases like this, you can change the encoding manully to the currect one.

Comment 3

[marina]

verified