269199 - Grouped by Sort displays garbage characters in group titles

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Nick Chalko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.11
Build Identifier: version 0.9 (20041103)

Group by sort, in my inbox shows funny characters, after a few minutes use.
Note: I m running OS X 10.3.6
I have two mailboxes.   I set both in boxes to sort by date and then group by date

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Start up thunderbird
2. Check inbox 1,  Group by Sort
3. Check inbox 2,  Group by Sort
4. Wait a while
5. Check inbox 1.
Actual Results:  
The Group labels are now forien characters.  (Looks Kanji or something)

Expected Results:  
Displayed enlish words like "yesterday" in the group lagel

Some times after this happens, closing the application causes thunderbird to crash.

Comment 1

[Nick Chalko]

Attachment: Screenshot.pdf

Comment 2

[Georges-Etienne Legendre]

Same thing for me.

Look at this thread :
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=175960

version 1.0RC1 (20041201)

Comment 3

[Chris Brand]

Attachment: "Grouped by Sort" -labels showing strange characters

Same problem, different way to reproduce:

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Thunderbird
2. Create a new message using the "Write" button
3. Close the main application window (which is showing the Inbox)
4. The mail message window "Compose: (subject)" is still open.
   Go to "Tools" and select "Mail & Newsgroups Ctrl+1"
5. The main application window appears again
Actual Results:  
The group labels show strange characters.

Expected Results:  
Group labels should show text like "Yesterday", "Last Week", ...

In most cases Thunberbird then crashes within a short time / when trying to
continue working in TB.

This has been tested and confirmed on two different systems.
Both running Windows XP SP2
Thunderbird 1.0.2 EN-US
Thunderbird 1.0 GERMAN

Comment 4

[James Nicolson]

same here

mac OS X 10.3.9

Comment 5

[Frankie]

Grouped by Sort causes all sorts of problems on Mac.

Comment 6

[Frankie]

*** Bug 294207 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Michael Dinneen]

I  also get Chinese characters in group headings on mac os X thunderbird

Comment 8

[Justin Mazzi]

I am using 10.4.4 and i have the same behavior. TB version 1.5 (20051201)

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en)
> AppleWebKit/125.5.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.11
> Build Identifier: version 0.9 (20041103)
> 
> Group by sort, in my inbox shows funny characters, after a few minutes use.
> Note: I m running OS X 10.3.6
> I have two mailboxes.   I set both in boxes to sort by date and then group by
> date
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.  Start up thunderbird
> 2. Check inbox 1,  Group by Sort
> 3. Check inbox 2,  Group by Sort
> 4. Wait a while
> 5. Check inbox 1.
> Actual Results:  
> The Group labels are now forien characters.  (Looks Kanji or something)
> 
> Expected Results:  
> Displayed enlish words like "yesterday" in the group lagel
> 
> Some times after this happens, closing the application causes thunderbird to
> crash.
> 

Comment 9

[FM]

Same problem (funny characters - probably kanji/chinese) with group titles, seems to occur after mac went to sleep/after dates have changed, though. Restarting TB brings the group titles back to normal. 

OS 10.4.5, German langauge version, TB 1.5 (German)

Comment 10

[Brady]

me too,
Thunderbird version 1.5 (20051201)
Mac OS 10.3.7 

Comment 11

[zug_treno]

*** Bug 330254 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Ulf]

I have the same Problem with these group-by bar. Using TB 1.5 under WinXP SP2 and use these extensions:
enigmail, quote colors, quote collapse, AccountEx, MBoxImport, Remove Duplicate
Messages, header scroll extension, minimize to tray, change quote and reply
format, contact sidebar.


And I have a sort by date, group-by-sort sorting.

Comment 13

[Tom Williams]

I'm seeing a variation of this where I get an actual message subject in place of the "Today" label, instead of "garbage" characters.

Would this be the same or similar issue or should I file a new bug report?  I'll generate a screenshot when I can.  I've been experiencing this using TB 1.5 on Linux.

Peace...

Comment 14

[Thomas Graham]

I solved this problem by removing the enigmail plugin, I no longer have any problems with grouping.

Does everyone use enigmail that has this problem?

Comment 15

[Ulf]

(In reply to comment #14)
> I solved this problem by removing the enigmail plugin, I no longer have any
> problems with grouping.
> 
> Does everyone use enigmail that has this problem?
> 

Do you use MacOS X or Windows?
I use windows and have this problem and use also enigmail.
But in the last weeks the problem doesn´t appear anymore. There was no newer enigmail version (iirc), but I installed a new GnuPG version. But I think this doesn´t solve the problem.

Comment 16

[Thomas Graham]

Using Mac OS X, I haven't tried on Windows. Removing Enigmail definitely seems to have stopped the garbage in the group titles.

Comment 17

[Georges-Etienne Legendre]

Yes, I do use Enigmail too.

Comment 18

[Michael Dinneen]

Still problems with (random chinese characters) in groupings with Mac OS X  version 1.5.0.2 (20060308).
No Enigmail plugin so that's not the problem.

Comment 19

[Reuven M. Lerner]

I have this problem on OS X (10.4.6) with Thunderbird version 1.5.0.2 (20060308).  I don't have Enigmail installed.

Sometimes the group labels disappear, and sometimes I get Kanji-looking characters.  

Comment 20

[Michael Dinneen]

I just turned grouping back on and see no problems. I haven't noticed
since I've turned it off for over a year now and forgot about that
option. :)

Using Thunderbird version 2.0.0.12 on mac os x 10.5 (and have the
Enigmail add-on). 

Comment 21

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

=> WFM based on comment 20.

If anyone still sees problem please comment in the bug