Bug 2855

Summary:	Displays pounds signs incorrectly
Product:	Claws Mail (GTK 2)	Reporter:	Tony Houghton <h>
Component:	Plugins/Fancy	Assignee:	users
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.8.1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Tony Houghton 2013-01-13 19:29:34 UTC

Order confirmations from Amazon are sent as HTML with this in the html head section:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

Pound signs in the body are shown by the fancy plugin as £ (ie a capital A with circumflex accent before the pound) which I think is a common symptom of confusing ISO-8859-1 with UTF-8.

My ISP's webmail via iceweasel (Firefox) and Chrome, icedove (Thunderbird) and even claws' gtkhtml2 plugin all display the pound signs correctly.

Comment 1 Paul 2013-01-21 18:27:21 UTC

works for me. can you send me an example msg privately? (Use 'forward as attachment')

Comment 2 Tony Houghton 2013-01-21 20:35:43 UTC

I've sent you an example of an email that displays incorrectly. Not all Amazon messages have this problem. The "good" ones have text as well as html, specify UTF-8 in the html head and use &pound;

The "bad" ones are HTML-only and use

Comment 3 Paul 2013-01-21 20:56:09 UTC

After looking at the source of the message, (sent privately), the problem is a broken message. It's UTF-8 encoded, but with an iso-8859-1 meta tag.