77449 - Unable to view message source of non-ascii news article

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[marina]

**** observed with 2001-04-23 build ****
Steps to reproduce:
- suscribe to dutch, german, japanese and russian newsgoups;
- go to german(dutch) newsgroup;
- select an article;
- go View|message source;
-//message source window opens just fine, you can view the source;
- go to russian(japanese) newsgoup;
- select an article;
- go View|message source;
//note: message source window is blank and mozilla is trying to save the source
file instead of opening it

Comment 1

[nhottanscp]

This is not always reproducible. Marina, could you find out a reproducible 
procedure?

Comment 2

[marina]

that's true, it is not always repro but most of the time though i still can not
define the cause of it. It didn't happen once in german or dutch newsgroup, it
happens all the time in russian (relcom.cinema) and most of the time in japanese

Comment 3

[marina]

now i think it has someting to do with Auto-detect on/off. When i choose ( for
ex for chinese newsgoup)Auto-detect  Chinese and and select charset big5 and
both are marked then i can view the page source. Because of the drawing of the
checkmark problem i have to go through chosing Autodetect and charset twice (
even though the checkmark is present). If i do it only once i can not see the
page source

Comment 4

[nhottanscp]

Before I was able to reproduce it once but auto detection was off.

Comment 5

[marina]

with Auto-detect turned off i can not view the source, to view i have to : turn
Auto-detect on, select charset ( twice) and then only view page source

Comment 6

[marina]

and another observation: after doing all those manipulations ( Auto-detect
on/off; viewing source, not being able to view source) i see f.gif as a new
folder under news.mcom.com tree

Comment 7

[nhottanscp]

Adding putterman to cc, any news related changes recently?

Comment 8

[scottputterman]

cc'ing sspitzer

Comment 9

[nhottanscp]

Reassign to putterman, I think this is a part of the problem of bug 77625.
ASCII news message view source are shown but the format is broken (for non ASCII 
message occasionally get the save dialog).

Comment 10

[scottputterman]

reassigning to sspitzer

Comment 11

[marina]

Naoki,
the format is not broken if you choose charset Western-ISO-8859 twice. First
time you open the source is ascii newsgroup it does look like broken, then you
have to go View|Character coding|Western ( even though the checkmark is already
there) and reselect it. In that case format is absolutely correct

Comment 12

[marina]

i think we have to look into the fact that viewing the source of the
ascii/non-ascii  message could be corrected by re-selecting the charset

Comment 13

[marina]

the original problem doesn't exist in current builds, except the Auto-detect set
to ALL case on Mac, solving as WFM

Comment 14

[marina]

verifying