On 2019-03-05, Rubens wrote: >>> Rubens wrote: >>>> >>>> I am receiving some Unicode-encoded e-mails which look garbled because >>>> Seamonkey always try to display them with Western encoding in the first >>>> place, >>>> so I always have to manually change the Text Encoding option for every >>>> Unicode e-mail I read. >>>> >>>> In the "Text Encoding - Message Display" preferences setting I >>>> tried both the "Default for current locale" and the "Other >>>> (including Western European)" >>>> but none gets what I need (to force opening every e-mail in Unicode >>>> viewing mode). >>>> >>>> Can anybody help ? My Seamonkey version is 2.49.4, language UK >>>> English and my OS is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, language US English. >>>> [...] > Hi guys, any more ideas on this ? It is really annoying to have to change > setting for every read e-mail.
I don't have a solution to offer, but what you describe sounds slightly strange. I have seen broken e-mail messages, where some piece of software manages to do something in a wrong way, and one thing that can go wrong is the content encoding. But, when this happens, you'd only see the problem in messages sent using that software, and not in all messages. This is what sounds strange to me. Can you confirm that this problem occurs with *all* messages? Or, at least, all e-mail messages? (I'll add some unicode-only characters just before the signature so that you can check whether this post is affected by the same problem.) It might be that there is some setting I'm not aware of, that does exactly what you are looking for (a way to force a given encoding), and it is currently set to the "wrong" encoding. Are you using anything that intercepts e-mail messages before they reach Seamonkey? (I believe some "internet security" software packages offer this as a feature.) Open/select one of the affected messages and look at its source (CTRL+U or "View->Message Source"). Can you locate the problematic text? If so, could you please copy the content of the latest Content-Type header that precedes it? This should be one line beginning with "Content-Type: ", possibly followed by more lines beginning with space or tab (I believe I got this right, somebody please correct me if I'm wrong...), like this: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 What I am curious about is the charset=... part of the header. While you are viewing the source, please copy the User-Agent header as well, if it exists. Unicode characters: - trademark mark: ™ - superscript 9: ⁹ - :-) smiley: ☺ -- Nuno Silva _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
