229209 - Incorrect encoding warning dialog should be more user friendly (maybe add button 'Use UNICODE' ?)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 194862

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Paulius M.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 (20031205)

This bug is analogous to mozilla mail bug 194862
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194862


Problem is that incorrect encoding warning dialog is not user friendly - it
isn't intuitive and users don't know how to choose correct encoding and also
can't choose encoding directly from warning dialog.

The simplest (and the best in my opinion) solution would be adding button "Use
UNICODE" to the incorrect encoding warning dialog. I think users and programers
should use unicode (UTF8) more intensively (for example in Opera 7 mail program
are no possibility to select encoding - all mail with non iso-8859-1 is send as
UTF8)



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press CTRL+M in mozilla
2. Choose ISO-8859-1 encoding and write some characters, that aren't in this
encoding (for example àè¿ëáð¸ûþ ÀȯËÁШÛÞ)
3. Press "Send" button

Actual Results:  
Incorrect encoding warning dialog without instructions how to select correct
encoding and without posibillity to choose correct encoding is displayed.

Expected Results:  
Incorrect encoding warning dialog with posibillity to choose correct encoding in
that dialog (for example UTF8 always is correct) or at least instructions how to
select correct encoding should be displayed.

There is a patch available for identical Mozilla Mail bug

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This bug should not have been opened; the patch at the dupe also works for TB.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 194862 ***