[Bug 1166104] Re: Forwarding a message breaks character encoding

[rduke15]

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.

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