88960 - Asian characters appearing randomly in French and German mail messages

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Jennifer Mulcaster]

Using  build 2001062504 Netscape

steps:
Open mail account set for Western 8859-1 character coding as its default. 
Open mail to read French or German messages.

Asian characters appear randomly within the body of the message.

Comment 1

[Jennifer Mulcaster]

Attachment: screenshot of french message with asian characters

Comment 2

[Olivier Mengué]

It seems that the message was handled as encoded in UTF-8 or another multibyte
charset.

Having the headers of the e-mail may help, because it may also be a problem in
the sender's program.

Comment 3

[Arun Prasannan (polar)]

This bug is being marked EXPIRED as it has seen no activity in a very long time.

If you think that the issue reported might still be relevant, please test with a recent release of SeaMonkey and if the problem persists feel free to re-open the report. Thank you.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Bulk reopening incorrectly expired bugs - no activity does not constitute no bug - these need proper checking.

Comment 5

[Ian Neal]

Could you check against a more recent version of SeaMonkey and if it still happens attach some example emails which display the issue?