303798 - Japanese font used in UTF-8 encoded messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 91190

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Alf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050718 Camino/0.9a2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050718 Camino/0.9a2

When composing a new message with UTF-8 encoding, the Japanese font is used for
displaying the message. ISO-8859-15 specific characters use the Western font and
I guess that characters that belong to other encodings resort to the specific fonts.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write a new message.
2. Select UTF-8 as character encoding.
3. Type any plain ASCII English characters.


Actual Results:  
The content of the message is displayed with the Japanese font.

Expected Results:  
The characters should be displayed the same way as when the message is viewed
after saving as a draft or receiving it, that is, applying the Unicode (Other
Languages in the case of the nightly build) font.

See bug #289510, which is related, although I reported a long time ago is still
unconfirmed.

Comment 1

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Alf, does the issue still occur in the latest supported Thunderbird version 2.0.0.12 or trunk nightlies?

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Should be bug 91190.