Hi, The problem you describe happens because the subject and sender headers of the message do not use MIME-encoding and instead use raw 8-bit characters without specifying what the charset is. If you want to view such headers, you can set the folder encoding to Windows-1251 in this case via "Edit | Properties | Character Coding" dialog. This encoding can be set differently for each mail folder. So you can create a special folder for Russian messages and have the encoding there set to KOI8-R (e.g. Russian) or Windows-1251 (e.g. Bulgarian) depending on which language your message is in.
There is a bug requesting that Mozilla use the charset specified in the body when MIME charset info is not found in headers. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77903 This would work for POP mail but not really for IMAP mail since the headers are downloaded first without peaking into the message body or downloading it. To avoid this kind of problem, either the user agent should use the MIME-encoded header or the Mail protocol itself should mandate a uniform encoding in case MIME is not used. For example, UTF-8. News posting protocol seems to be moving toward that direction. - Kat Neil wrote: > I don't understand the attached message but that is not relavent to my > question. > > I understand why the subject of that message didn't display in the > system title bar, as I am using Windows 95 which only supports the > 1252 character set in the title bar. > > I was impressed to see that the subject displayed correctly in the > Subject textbox of the message compose window that I am writing this > message with. > > Would it be possible for the subject to display correctly in two other > places: the Subject column of the thread pane and the Subject: label > of the message header view? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > > ������ �������� ������������� �������� � ������! > From: > > ������������@������������.ru > Date: > > Fri, 9 Nov 2001 1:21:20 +0300 > To: > > ������������@������������.ru > > >��������� �������! > >������ �������� ������������� �������� � ������, ����������� ��-�. > �. 1, 3 ����, "��������", 57 ��. �. � ����� �������, 34 ��. �. � ����� �������, >������ �������� 3.30 �., ������� ����������, �������� � ������� ���������. > >���� 118000 USD. > >���������� �������: (095) 746-93-48 > > -- Katsuhiko Momoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web Standards/Embedding Netscape Technology Evangelism/Developer Support __________________________________________________ Try the new Netscape 6.2 Release Download now: http://home.netscape.com/download/index.html Then tell us what you think: http://home.netscape.com/browsers/6/feedback/index.html
