345672 - S/MIME signed messages are invalid when message body contains £ character

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[mark]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

When receiving a S/MIME signed mail that contains a £ charcter in the body the signature is invalid.

Thunderbird 1.5.0.4

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type £ in the message body.
2. Sign the mail.
3. Send the mail.

Actual Results:  
The digital signature is invalid.

Expected Results:  
The digital signature is valid.

The message body of the mail in the sent items folder contains "£" but the message body of the mail in my inbox contains "=A3".

Comment 1

[goozoo]

I've got exactly the same problem in Thunderbird 1.5.0.7

Comment 2

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

Reporter, does the issue still occur in the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported 2.0.0.x is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 3

[mark]

The issue no longer occurs in 2.0.0.16

Comment 4

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

FIXED is for bugs that have patches (most of the time). This is a WFM.