270148 - Automatic detection of the encoding doesn't work in newsgroup

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[serval]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

If you define prefs about encoding, these prefs override the messages encoding
of the newsgroup.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.use UTF8 by default for ingoing and outgoing.
2.go on a french newsgroup for example (most of the messages use is 8859-1)


Actual Results:  
characters like é display "?"

Expected Results:  
thunderbird shouldn't override the encoding of a newsgroup message (he doesn't
for an answer to a mail !)

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Actual Results:  
> characters like [é] display "?"

There are a number of factors that affect this display.  
1) Messages can, and should, specify their preferred encoding, but this 
information is often missing and sometimes specified incorrectly.

2) Each folder or newsgroup can specify its preferred encoding for message 
display, and also specify whether the encoding will override the encoding 
specified in the message.  (Right-click on Folder, Properties)

3) The display of non-ASCII characters in the message headers is not controlled 
by the character set specified in the message, so it often happens that you'll 
see '?' in the header but the message body displayed correctly.

I am not seeing any difference in behavior between newsgroups and mail in this 
regard (TB 1.0, Win2K), so I am marking this bug WorksForMe.

Reporter (serval): if you disagree with this resolution, please feel free to 
reopen, and provide the following information:
1) Properties settings for the newsgroup's encoding
2) Save a message that is not displaying correctly as a .EML file, and attach 
that file to this bug, using the Create New Attachment link above.