289557 - charset="UTF-8" ignored

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[John W. Kennedy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

If I have a message with (for example)

Content-Type: text/plain;
	format=flowed;
	charset="utf-8";
	reply-type=original

or 

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed

(That last one was /sent/ by Thunderbird.)

the message is displayed as ISO-8859-1. I must manually switch to UTF-8 via
View->Character Encoding

Option "Apply default to all messages (ignore character encoding specified in
MIME header)" is /not/ checked.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This works for me.  Which build are you reporting this bug against?

Could you provide a sample message?  Save as a .EML file and attach it to this 
bug, using the Create New Attachment link above.

Comment 2

[John W. Kennedy]

Attachment: Sample broken message

Comment 3

[John W. Kennedy]

Oops! 1.02 (but I think it goes back further).

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

That message is showing correctly for me with TB 1.0.2 and TB 1.0+040.

Have you set the checkbox under:
  Tools | Options | Fonts | Character Encodings
   [] Apply default to all messages
?

Comment 5

[John W. Kennedy]

"Apply default to all messages" is /not/ set. In fact, I even tried setting it
and unsetting it to see if it would make a difference.

Comment 6

[John W. Kennedy]

Attachment: Another sample, this one /created/ by Thunderbird

This message I posted myself, so I know it to have originated from Thunderbird.

Comment 7

[Graham Smith]

I have run in to this problem as well although I am not sure that the posted bug
isn't actually a side effect of another bug. 

The headers of a message that was causing me problems are shown below. No matter
what I did pound symbols (British pounds eg  unicode character a3) always
displayed as capital A with a hat and the pound sign (typical ISO-8859-1
interpretation of UTF-8). 

"Apply default to all messages (ignore character encoding specified in MIME
header)" was initially set so I unchecked it (the default is set to ISO-8859-1)
but even after unchecking the box the problem still appeared. After much head
scratching I restarted TB and it seems to have fixed the problem.

I am using the Debian build of TB version 1.0.2 (20050611)

Delivered-To: [e-mail]
Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
Received: from bar ([::ffff:192.168.0.10])
  by smtp.example.com with esmtp; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:20:14 +0100
  id 000C6D6A.42C9459E.00000A50
Message-ID: <22348634.1120486814151.JavaMail.foo@bar>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 15:20:14 +0100 (BST)
From: Foo Bar Baz <[e-mail]>
To: Noone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Some Subject
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Comment 8

[John W. Kennedy]

As of 2.0.0.6 (and probably sometime earlier), the problem seems to have been fixed.