37305 - Japanese signature file in html format shows up as squares if the setting are plain text

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[marina]

Stesp to reproduce:
-make a JA signature file and save it in html format;
-set new mail composition to Plain text;
-check the box so the signature file would be attached to your message;
-invoke a new Mail composition window;
//note: signature file is showing up as squares
(it doesn't happen when setting are html compose)

Comment 1

[nhottanscp]

Is this a new feature or regression?

Comment 2

[marina]

This is not a regression neither it is a new feature. It is a new behavour of 
the existing feature: signature file was appended before only when you were 
replying, now it is attached when you invoke a new mail composition. So today 
for the first time i was able to see how it is attached when you compose a new 
mail.

Comment 3

[nhottanscp]

Reassign to ducarroz, cc to rhp.

Comment 4

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

reassign to rhp

Comment 5

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

QA contact to marina.

Comment 6

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Using 2/27/2000 Win32 build, if I attach a JPN siganture
file in HTM format under the plain text message compose
option, it crashes rather than seeing square box 
characters. 

Comment 7

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Check this bug when Bug 34373 has been fixed.

The crash does not occur when appending a JPN HTML
sig to an HTML messeage compose window or a plain
text JPN sig to a plain text message compose window.

Most people would not be appending an HTML format signature 
to a plain text message but might want to investigate the crash 
bug soon. 

Comment 8

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Attachment: A sample JPN siganture file in HTML format

Comment 9

[marina]

on both JA and EN systems if you attach an html ja signature file to a plain 
text mail you'll see it displyed as squares (it doesn't crash though)

Comment 10

[rhp (gone)]

Hi Naoki,
I'm not sure if you have any time to look at this or not. If not, just reassign 
it back to me. I am setting the milestone to Future in any case.

Thanks.

- rhp

Comment 11

[nhottanscp]

This is fixed now, it's working on my WinNT Japanese.

Comment 12

[ji]

On linux, the html signature file in euc displays all right, but the file in 
Shift Jis displays as question marks and ASCII characters on both HTML and plain 
text mail compose window. My default composing character coding setting is 
ISO-8859-1. I can't set to a different character set, like ISO-2022-JP, due to 
bug 46310.
If I set the default composing character set to ISO-2022-JP, the html signature 
file in Shift Jis should display correctly, right?

Comment 13

[nhottanscp]

I think a charset of a signature file is restricted to a file system charset.
For HTML signature, we may to better by parsing a META charset in the HTML 
signature (if available) but I don't think we are currently doing that.
A separate bug may be filed for that (parsing META in signature).
I think the user usually saves a signature as a file system charset.

Comment 14

[ji]

Verified with 2000-07-24-09 windows build.