294624 - Problem with Japanese Letters, UTF8 with older Mail Clients

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 249530

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Christian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Hello Together,

We have a problem with Thunderbird 1.02.
My system is Windows XP SpP2.

Problem:
I recieve a mail from a japanese college encoded in ISO-2022-JP.
I can view the japanese characters without problems.
The I reply to that mail and add some "ö, ä "etc..
When i click on send the message, i get a warning that if i use the current
characterset (ISO-2022-JP) some letters in my mail will not be encoded correctly.
I click on OK , because i want that the mail is send in ISO-2022-JP because the
mail client of the recipient does not support UTF-8 (older Netscape Client).

And here comes the problem:
If i click OK, then thunderbird does not send the mail in ISO-2022-JP. Instead
it automatically converts the mail to UTF8. 
Because of this,. the mail recpient can't read the mail now!!

How can i fix this ?

Thanks,
Christian

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Get a mail coded in ISO-2022-JP with japanese Characters in it
2.Reply to that mail and add some german "ä" or "ö" ..
3.Click on send message and wait for the warning message
4. Click ok on the warning message, cause you want to send the mail in ISO-2022-JP.
5.If you look at the replay mail now, you will see that thunderbird
automatically changed the encoding of that mail to UTF-8.
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird sended the mail in utf-8

Expected Results:  
As i pressed OK on the warning message, thunderbird should NOT converts the mail
to UTF-8 before sending. The mail should be send in the encoding i choosed !!!

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This has already been fixed on the trunk; the dialog now has an additonal 
button, "Send Anyway", that preserves the encoding.  Download a nightly build to 
use, or wait for TB 1.1 to be released.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249530 ***

Comment 2

[Christian]

Thank you for this information.
Is there any release date for Thunderbird 1.1 ?
I ask, because we want to user Thunderbird as our MAil-Client on about 500
Clients. And we want to start the rollout a soon as possible.

Thanks in advance,
Christian