390688 - Spaces in e-mail messages are given a question mark in the space.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Jerry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.6 (20070728)

Spaces in e-mail messages are given a question mark in the space.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
[sample, the little boxes are ? in the messsage]
Jerry,
I don't see how to do that. I'm scanning the actual photo from my HP to my iMac Mail. The actual size shows on the e-mail message screen. Maybe I can send them in another format?

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

Looks like it could be some sort of character set encoding issue... Do you get that with messages you send to yourself? In messages from everyone? Or from a particular sender? I can't really think of where an 0xf7a0 would come from

Comment 2

[Jerry]

Here is another sample of e-mail received:

Okay, Jerry. I'll send them individually. Thanks. -- Terry

The ? turns into a small box, when I past it here.  There was a ? at the box places.
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The funny part is a friend sent this to me (and two other people). Like she only has 3 Democratic friends? I told her she probably doesnt know the half of it  just like we dont know the half of it. Anyway, these are good. I have seen some before  but they are still worth the smile to read them.
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message sent to myself gmail to wbhsi.net
Now is the time for all good men
to come to the aid
of their countryman.

We will see if this get filled in with spaces and ?
============= all the boxes were ? marks.

Comment 3

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

ah, of course.
> Okay, Jerry.[0xf7a0] I'll send them individually.
0xa0, non-breaking space in latin1 and CP1252, so something that would occur when double-spacing sentences
> she probably doesn[0xf792]t know
0x92 right single quotation mark in CP1252
> half of it [0xf796] just like we
0x96 en dash.
I don't get where the 0xf7 comes from though. You could try View -> Character Encoding -> Auto-detect -> Universal. Or, send a test message directly to me that would appear oddly on your tbird so I can try seeing if there's anything odd with it.

Comment 4

[Jerry]

I changed the encoding to Western ISO and Western windows
and the problem went away.  For some reason it was on User Defined
and that caused the problem.

Thanks guys

Comment 5

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

ok, closing this