979857 - Adding characters like right-arrow or right-single-quotation-mark to plaint-text email when default charset=ISO-8859-1 causes all leading spaces to be removed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Walter Rudametkin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.93 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Send a plain-text email with default charset=ISO-8859-1 format=flowed, leading spaces and a single 'weird' character.

EXAMPLE:
          10 leading spaces then a ’ character (right-single-quotation-mark)



Actual results:

Email is converted to charset=WINDOWS=1252 (or UTF-8 if → arrow is used). All leading spaces are removed throughout the email.

RESULT:
10 leading spaces then a ’ character (right-single-quotation-mark)


Expected results:

Leading spaces should be preserved when converting email to WINDOWS=1252 or UTF-8.

EXPECTED:
          10 leading spaces then a ’ character (right-single-quotation-mark)

Comment 1

[Walter Rudametkin]

A workaround for this issue is to set email to UTF-8 (Edit→Preferences→Display→Advanced), thus avoiding any conversions that cause leading whitespace to be lost.

I wrote a longer version of this issue here:
http://rudametw.github.io/blog/posts/2014.03.05/Thunderbird-leading-spaces-bug.html

Walter Rudametkin

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Can you reproduce this in version 45?

Comment 3

[Walter Rudametkin]

Hi,

It took me a bit to find a non UTF-8 email, seems all of my contacts are now using UTF-8.

So I tested autoconverting a couple of emails in us-ascii and ISO-8859-1 to Windows-1252 and UTF-8 and it works fine now. I still use flowed text, which has a couple of other issues, but in this case leading spaces are properly kept.

IMHO you can close this bug.

Regards,
Walter

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks for the update