284983 - changing the window layout for mail results into display problems with german umlauts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 265393

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Thomas Havemeister]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111

When displaying a german email which includes german umlauts like ä,ö,ü,ß and
then changing the window layout using Preferences->Mail&Newsgroups->Windows the
german umlauts appear like ü, ü, ö which is not readable. The feature to
change display layout without the need to restart has been introduced with
1.8a6. The workaround to this problem is to restart the mail application. Then
all the umlauts appear without any errors.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select an email containing german umlauts e.g. "ä","ü","ß"
2.Change Window Layout of your choice Preferences->Mail&Newsgroups->Windows
3.examine the umlauts. 

Actual Results:  
The Umlauts appear like this: ü, ü, ö

Expected Results:  
The application should display the acutal german umlauts rather then garbage.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

 (In reply to comment #0)
> The workaround to this problem is to restart the mail application. Then
> all the umlauts appear without any errors.

Isn't the workaround simply to select another message and then reselect the one 
that exhibited the problem?



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 265393 ***

Comment 2

[Thomas Havemeister]

(In reply to comment #1)

> Isn't the workaround simply to select another message and then reselect the one 
> that exhibited the problem?

no. You need to restart the mail application. Selecting another won'r
reinitialize the en/decoding.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

For what it's worth, my current Mozilla build is 1.8b-0120, and I no longer see 
this symptom on the test message that previously exhibited the problem -- the 
same message that still exhibits the problem in Thunderbird.  Maybe Neil is 
aware of a fix in the suite that went in after the initial report of bug 265393.

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

No idea, sorry. Does View/Character Encoding not help either?