Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
I've discovered a peculiar glitch in the way SeaMonkey handles message
encodings; I wonder if others can reproduce it.
My defaults at Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups | Encoding are:
Fallback Character Encoding: Other (Including Western Europe)
Default Character Encoding: Default for Current Locale
Both checkboxes are unchecked.
I didn't choose these; they were apparently implemented by the devs as
defaults during one of the many upgrades in recent years.
So here are the steps to reproduce:
Hide the message pane so only the folder list and message list are
visible. In the message list, select a message with a nondefault
encoding (in my case, I have lots of Unicode messages) by clicking it
once. Don't double-click to open it. Unhide the message pane by clicking
the grippy once.
The selected message is displayed in the message pane, in gibberish,
because SM is trying to display it using the wrong encoding (fallback or
default, I don't know which).
Using the up/down arrows or the mouse, select a different message in the
message list and then return to the original message. Now SM displays
the original message in the appropriate encoding.
For some reason, SM does not parse the message header for encoding info
when I unhide the message pane this way.
I've also noticed that, currently in SeaMonkey 2.26.1 on Windows Vista
(I keep meaning to upgrade and check if it still happens, but there's no
Lightning for non-US locales for 2.32). For me it's usually only a few
characters which show incorrectly, e.g. the UK pound sign (£), since
most other characters used in English emails are encoded the same in
most character encodings. Toggling the message pane off and back on
(e.g. hit F8 twice) also gets the correct encoding.
I think the encoding used is the encoding of the message which was
displayed when the message pane was hidden, or the last one opened as a
separate window.
Probably worth a bug report if you're still seeing it in SeaMonkey 2.32
Possibly related, but not identical, to:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701694
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597369
Mark.
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