76860 - accented characters in From mail header converted to garbage

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 77967

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Eric Hedström]

If I have the umlaut on the 'o' in my last name in the Mail/News account
settings, when I send mail it UTF-8 encodes and then ISO-8859-1 encodes it, so
it ends up as garbage. It should do only ISO-8859-1, since that is the encoding
I'm using for the message.

From: Eric =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hedstr=C3=B6m?= <[e-mail]>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.8.1+)
Gecko/20010419

This worked yesterday, in the 2001041804 build.

Comment 1

[Eric Hedström]

works again in 2001042012, no doubt related to other Preferences breakage that
has been fixed.

Comment 2

[Eric Hedström]

This is broken again in 2001-04-27-14.

Looks like the breakage happens when it saves the preferences: If you go back
into mailnews settings or look at the From line in mailnews editor, it shows the
garbage (well, utf-8 encoded 'ö') instead of the ö.

Comment 3

[ji]

Yes, account name setting is broken for non-ASCII. Please see bug 77967.

Comment 4

[Eric Hedström]

This bug was open first :) but 77967's description is more general.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77967 ***

Comment 5

[ji]

Marked it as verified.