346446 - Thunderbird ignores charset encoding of messages when displays its headers (subject, from, to)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 140588

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Paul Yanchenko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

Thunderbird ignores charset encoding of messages when displays its headers (subject, from, to) in folder's list of main window and in separated window of message.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set Options/Display/Fonts/Incoming Mail to some encoding (ex. Unicode UTF-8)
2. Receive message with different charset encoding (ex. Cyrillic Windows-1251)
3. Look in Inbox folder or open this message in separated window

Actual Results:  
I see "?" characters or text with wrong encoding

Expected Results:  
I expected to see message header in same encoding as message body.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The headers are not, and should not, be interpreted according to the 
Content-Type header.  If headers contain non-ASCII data, they are supposed to be encoded per RFC 2047.

You can change the default charset used for header display in the Properties settings for the folder or newsgroup.  Right-click the folder, select Properties, set the charset.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140588 ***