Closed Bug 265423 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Name in From: trashed when replying with default UTF-8 encoding for outgoing mail

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Message Compose Window
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 229399

People

(Reporter: hlavac, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: version 0.8 (20040913)

When replying to a mail that has name with non-ascii characters in From:, and
when default encoding for outgoing mail is set to UTF-8, and when "Always use
default character encoding in replies" option is set, recipient name in To:
field of the reply message is not copied correctly (shows as �).


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure default encoding for outgoing messages as UTF-8
2. Set "Always use default character encoding in replies"
3. Get a mail from someone which has non-ascii characters in name, and is using
some 8-bit encoding (like ISO-8859-2).
 Example from message source:
From: =?iso-8859-2?B?SmFuIE1vdWT47Ws=?= <moudrik@alzasoft.cz>
4. Hit Reply button.

Actual Results:  
To: field of the reply message shows "� <moudrik@alzasoft.cz>"

Expected Results:  
To: field of the reply message should read "Jan Moudřík <moudrik@alzasoft.cz>"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229399 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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