61986 - Default character encoding not used in newsgroups

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32714

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect, P3)

Description

[Gilles Durys]

2000120420 trunk NT4 Sp6a

I have the default character encoding set in the prefs to ISO-8859-1 and
Auto-detect set Japanese.
Whenever I get a news message with no encoding set in the headers, it's rendered
using one of the Japanese encoding.

Comment 1

[Gilles Durys]

Attachment: Source of the message

Comment 2

[Gilles Durys]

Attachment: Picture of the rendered message

Comment 3

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

I am confirming this bug since the phenomenon described by
Gilles does occur. But I wonder if we should really fix this
problem. In the current spec for this, we honor
"Auto-detection" above the fallback encoding set in the
Pref | Message Display. If you want to have correct
display, you can check the "Apply the default to all
messages..." in the Pref for Message Display.

If this does not work, it would be a bug.

One possibility we can think of is to place the default
encoding higher than Auto-detection, however. CC'ing
nhotta and others. Let's think about this a bit before
deciding what to do.

Comment 4

[nhottanscp]

>One possibility we can think of is to place the default
>encoding higher than Auto-detection, however.
No, it makes auto-detection useless.
For better newsgroup support, it is planned to be targeted by folder level
charset (bug 32714) feature. It will allow the user to set a particular charset
per newsgroup instead of a global default.

Comment 5

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

And then you can force that encoding for that folder
only -- in which case, auto-detection will be ignored.
Yes, that's a better solution.
Then, let's make this a duplicate of that bug.
Marking this a duplicate of Bug 32714.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32714 ***

Comment 6

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

We are going to verify this bug as a duplicate of Bug 32714.
Being able to "force" the per folder encoding onto
all the msgs in a given folder will solve the reported problem.