857992 - problem with Czech character encoding in email in 8859-2

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 594646

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[zetka]

Attachment: czech_test_email.eml

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 SeaMonkey/2.17
Build ID: 20130327153803

Steps to reproduce:

Having a message in Czech send from Microsoft Outlook Express version 6.00, the message composed in html, encoding set to 8859-2. The email source contains text and html version of the email (see the attached file)


Actual results:

When I view the message, the sender name and subject are encoded well inclusive the Czech special characters. In case of displaying the message in plain text, the body is correctly displayed in Czech. In case of viewing message in html, the czech characters are wrongly displayed. When displaying the same message in Outlook, there is no problem.


Expected results:

The czech characters /ěščřžýžáíé../ should be displayed correctly in html -View version too.

Comment 1

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

This is a duplicate of bug 594646, casused by a <meta> tag with the content= first and http-equiv="Content-Type" afterwards.

A workaround (not very pretty but better than nothing) consists of using "View → Message Body As → Simple HTML" on problematic messages. The error also disappears when replying to the message.