284718 - Accents in spanish are not showed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[remo.tamayo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

For all mail containing accents, they show in html mode (&iacute instead of í).
This happens with the spanish (spain) version of thunderbird, build 20041206.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just receiving a mail with accents
2.
3.



Expected Results:  
Showing áéíóú instead of &aacute&eacute&iacute&oacute&uacute

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

If you look at this bug report, you'll see that your attempts at pasting in text 
have failed.

It sounds like the problem is that the message is being viewed with the wrong 
encoding -- either the message is encoded as ISO-8859-1 and being viewed as 
UTF-8, or vice versa.  You can change the encoding for viewing the current 
message using the    View | Character Encoding    menu.

Messages are supposed to specify their own encodings.  You can see what the 
message has specified by selecting:   View | Message Source    and then look for 
the Content-Type header; an example:
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
This part is the encoding:  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If the message does not have an encoding specified, you can specify a default 
encoding to use --  Tools | Options | Fonts, Incoming Mail