845833 - Wrong character visualization of messages with Cyrillic encoding windows-1251 in SeaMonkey mail after update to 2.16

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 594646

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Borislav Ivanov]

Attachment: The source of one of the messages.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.16
Build ID: 20130217195808

Steps to reproduce:

I've updated to SeaMonkey 2.16. After update there's a wrong visualization of messages with charset="windows-1251" encoding. Both new incoming and old sent messages. All my message folders are with default character encoding windows-1251.
I've tried to visualize them correctly using View->Character Encoding->Windows 1251.
The problem even exists after editing a message with Message->Edit As New.


Actual results:

I still can not get the right visualization of characters in the messages.

Comment 1

[Philip Chee]

Probably a duplicate of Bug 594646

Comment 2

[Borislav Ivanov]

Hi guys,

This bug really annoying me. I'm an old-fashioned Netscape user (Do you remeber Netscape) and don't want to deal with any MS or other mail client ****. So please just fix the **** bug, so I can do some of my work.

Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to Borislav Ivanov from comment #2)
> Hi guys,
> 
> This bug really annoying me. I'm an old-fashioned Netscape user (Do you
> remeber Netscape) and don't want to deal with any MS or other mail client
> ****. So please just fix the **** bug, so I can do some of my work.

That is being looked into, but it isn't as simple as snapping fingers. Bug 594646 already has 11 duplicates (including this one), and more are coming in every so often, which makes it obvious to anyone looking at it that it has become a sore spot.

Workaround: View → Message Body as → Simple HTML