Bug 498153 - Thunderbird does not display messages according to their Content-type character set
Summary: Thunderbird does not display messages according to their Content-type charact...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: thunderbird
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-29 06:11 UTC by Basil Mohamed Gohar
Modified: 2018-04-11 14:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-05-15 15:01:35 UTC
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2009-05-15 14:44 UTC, Matěj Cepl
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Description Basil Mohamed Gohar 2009-04-29 06:11:46 UTC
Description of problem:
Thunderbird does not display a message with a non-default character set according to the content-type as specified in the header.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
thunderbird-3.0-2.1.beta2.fc11.i586

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2009-05-15 14:44:23 UTC
Created attachment 344166 [details]
screenshot of non-reproduction

Sorry, as you can see on this Russian spam (sorry, for using spam, but that's the best collection of weird-languages emails I have ;-)).

It has

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

and it is displayed correctly (yes, this is correct Russian, I can read it).

I would suspect some of your Thunderbird plugins making havoc. Are you able to reproduce the problem even when starting TB in the safe mode (start it in the terminal with -safe-mode as a parameter on the command line)? If yes, could you please attach some example of the message (hopefully not private) which shows the described issue (and a screenshot how it looks like on your computer), please?

Thank you very much

Comment 2 Basil Mohamed Gohar 2009-05-15 15:01:35 UTC
Thank you for helping me.  I found out I had checked the "Apply default to all messages" option in the Inbox folder properties.  I had misread the checkbox and thought it would apply a default, but NOT override messages' own charset setting, but apparently it does the opposite (upon more careful reading).

Sorry for that.  This bug can be closed!  Thanks again!


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