243747 - Only part of message body shown (invalid character coding)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 236941

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[fejesjoco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421

see the attached file. mozilla only displays the last two lines. the empty
status: header may confuse it. but there were replies to this list message, with
the whole body quoted, so some mail clients can handle it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[fejesjoco]

Attachment: bug

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The problem is not the blank Status: header; it's the charset specified in the 
Content-Type: header.  I don't know what "iso8854-2" might be; when I changed 
that to "iso-8859-2" (the correct ID for the standard Central/Eastern European 
character set) the message displayed OK.  Same thing when I selected 
View|Character Encoding|ISO-8859-2.

Every line that was hidden contained some 8-bit characters; the two lines that 
were shown were 7-bit only.

I'm not sure what Mozilla should do differently, if anything.

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

I'm not quite sure why, since the message isn't in UTF-8, but I get the same
assertions as in the testcase for bug 236941.

Comment 4

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

This is the bug 239236 variant of bug 236941.
The charset is unknown, so the call to get a converter fails, but the current
code copies the string intact, so later when Mozilla expects already converted
UTF-8, it gets invalid 8-bits content instead, and every line that includes one
or more 8 bits character fails to display.

I verified that the patch to bug 236941 corrects the problem on the attachment
with the TB nightly here :
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2004-06-01-02-0.7/
This should be OK with a Moz trunk nightly too as soon as the patch will be
included.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236941 ***