Hi,
Thanks for your answer.
Paul B. Gallagher writes :
Francois LE COAT wrote:
I've used successively Mosaic, Netscape, Mozilla then SeaMonkey
for exactly 20 years on the Usenet today. I never had to complain,
since SeaMonkey 2.26 appeared ... Well, the character encoding
is working or not, you never can tell ... Sometimes accents
in French are correct, sometimes they're not, randomly. I understood
that a bug was supposed to be fixed with SeaMonkey 2.26 version. But
in facts, character encoding is not working correctly whatever type
of message you're sending, via SMTP, NNTP etc.
Is this a known issue ? That's rather embarrassing, really.
In facts, the problem that still persists with SeaMonkey 2.26.1
with the French accentuation, is a problem with the UTF-8 encoding.
I can't read or reply to messages that use the UTF-8 character
encoding. It doesn't depend on the host system under which SeaMonkey
is installed, because I had to face the same problem with OS X 10.6.8
and Kubuntu Linux 14.04, with SeaMonkey 2.26.1. I adopted the
ISO-8859-15 character encoding, because UTF-8 has a visible bug.
That's a major problem, because UTF-8 is set by default with SeaMonkey.
I've never had the problem you describe, so I wonder if it's a pref you
set in your profile. What happens if you create a fresh profile?
I don't want to lose my messages, creating a profile. I'm not expert.
Anyway, I'm using SeaMonkey 2.26.1 with two different operating systems.
On my systems, Unicode just works. Period.
The problem with UTF-8 encoding happens when you talk in French forums.
Because I register to some newsgroups on the Usenet, I frequently
have the problem with users adopting the UTF-8 character encoding,
and using accentuation. Of course it is not a problem here. Every
accent is badly displayed with 2 unreadable characters, in the message,
and when I reply to the corresponding message, I have to rewrite it.
This happen since the following bug was corrected :
"
Fixes in Beta 1
The en-US locale now defaults to UTF-8 for outgoing emails (bug 941545).
"
at <http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.26/changes>
It happens on the Usenet, but also when receiving or sending emails
with a SMTP server, whatever host system I use (OS X, Linux ...)
I don't know if it's a known issue, but it is embarrassing for foreign
users of SeaMonkey like me, using accentuated languages.
Regards,
--
François LE COAT
<http://eureka.atari.org/>
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