Same problem here, with Ubuntu 12.04 and TB 38.2.0. The received message is really UTF8, and it's headers (and multipart heders) seem correct (the sender used Apple Mail 2.2).
If I open the message in the viewer, it displays correctly, but under View->Character Encoding, TB has selected "Western" instead of "Unicode". When forwarding the message, it gets double-encoded. If in the viewer I change View->Character Encoding to "Unicode", the message still displays correctly, as if I didn't change anything, but now forwarding also works correctly and the encoding is preserved. It feels as if TB would ignore the mail headers and try to autodetect the encoding, getting it wrong. This auto-detected charset is then only used with forwarding, not for displaying the mail in the viewer, or for replies. Very strange. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1166104 Title: Forwarding a message breaks character encoding Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I received an email (MIME, multipart, UTF-8 text specified for both HTML and Plain parts). When I click Forward Message then the encoding gets broken. It appears that the UTF-8 has been interpreted as Latin-1 (or at least not UTF8) and 'converted' into UTF8, even though it already was, so I see (what could be) double-encoded characters. The mail was from Yahoo: X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.140.532 The message displays fine. If I hit Reply, that's fine. If I start a new message and copy-and-paste, that works properly. It appears to be just the Forward button that's broken. Both Forward and Shift-Forward exibit the same behaviour. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: thunderbird 17.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-39.62-generic 3.2.39 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-39-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24. ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 Architecture: amd64 ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC269VB Analog [ALC269VB Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: rich 1995 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: rich 1995 F...m pulseaudio BuildID: 20130308132820 Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xc0600000 irq 43' Mixer name : 'Intel CougarPoint HDMI' Components : 'HDA:10ec0269,10250513,00100100 HDA:80862805,80860101,00100000' Controls : 26 Simple ctrls : 12 Channel: Unavailable Date: Mon Apr 8 10:33:02 2013 ForcedLayersAccel: False IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) IpRoute: default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth2 proto static 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth2 scope link metric 1000 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth2 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.6 metric 2 MarkForUpload: True MostRecentCrashID: bp-022d6a4f-83a0-49e7-bac3-3739c2120718 PrefSources: prefs.js Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=17.0.4/20130308132820 (In use) RelatedPackageVersions: cinnamon 1.6.7-0ubuntu1~precise1 totem-mozilla 3.4.3-0ubuntu1~precise1 rhythmbox-mozilla 2.97-1ubuntu1~precise1 gnome-shell 3.4.1-0ubuntu2 RunningIncompatibleAddons: False SourcePackage: thunderbird SubmittedCrashIDs: bp-022d6a4f-83a0-49e7-bac3-3739c2120718 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) WifiSyslog: Apr 8 10:29:42 reech wpa_supplicant[1138]: WPA: Group rekeying completed with 00:0f:b5:b0:77:a6 [GTK=TKIP] dmi.bios.date: 03/16/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: Acer dmi.bios.version: V1.20 dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: SJV70_HR dmi.board.vendor: Acer dmi.board.version: Base Board Version dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer dmi.chassis.version: V1.20 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV1.20:bd03/16/2012:svnAcer:pnAspire5750:pvrV1.20:rvnAcer:rnSJV70_HR:rvrBaseBoardVersion:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrV1.20: dmi.product.name: Aspire 5750 dmi.product.version: V1.20 dmi.sys.vendor: Acer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1166104/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
