Jeesun Cho Reporter
	Description • 22 years ago

Save JA mail with attachment as html - content looks garbled
Build: 1112 branch
Platform: MacOSX and Linux 7.3

Steps:
1. Send yourself a JA mail with JA html file attachment. In my case, I attached
a JA html file encoded with EUC-JP
2. Receive the mail
3. Go to File|Save as File
4. Save it as a html file (with either JA name or EN name)
5. Open it in the browser and turn on auto detect in View|Character Coding
6. The content looks garbled and the window title looks weird too.

Note: If saved as eml or txt file, it looks OK

	marina
	Comment 1 • 22 years ago

Jeesun, what Autodetect is on: universal or japanese? If autodetect is off does
it show correctly? I send myself a page from yahoo.jp (a euc-jp encoded page),
got the mail and saved it as .html file twice : with english and japanese name.
I opened the saved file in the browser and in both cases it looked correct.
Turning autodetect on/off didn't change anything.

	Simon Montagu :smontagu
	Comment 2 • 22 years ago

to shanjian, cc-ing nhotta

	Jeesun Cho Reporter
	Comment 3 • 22 years ago

I just turn auto-detect on with Universal.
I saw this on all platforms. 
When we save shift_jis or iso-2022-jp email with NO attachment, saved html file
looks fine. If you turn on auto-detect, the browser will find the right encoding
to display the mail body and header(subject, from, to etc.). In other words,
body and the header were encoded using the same encoding.

But when I attach euc-jp or shift_jis html file in the mail (or any other
encoding I guess) and save the received mail as a html file, the display in the
browser doesn't look right. You'll see different encoding in each area: 
For headers: You need to select UTF-8 encoding specifically to see the chars
correctly
For mail body: Need to select iso-2022-jp encoding
For attachment: Need to select shift-jis or euc-jp depending on the encoding of
attached file 

The bottom line is the entire content can not be displayed correctly in any case
above.

	marina
	Comment 4 • 22 years ago

Jeesun, just to be sure: you are saving the attachment from the envelope? and we
are talking about the multi-part message with different encodings?

	marina
	Comment 5 • 22 years ago

as i understand it the .eml files are saved as the original RFC 822 data and the
html files are saved in system encoding. The autodetect usually check for UTF-8
sequences. What's your system encoding, Jeesun?

	ji
	Comment 6 • 22 years ago

To clarify, the spec for Save as is as below
. txt format -- saves in system encoding, stripping off unnecessary RFC822 lines.
. HTML -- saves in HTML format using the original encoding. (e.g. ISO-2022-JP)
. eml format -- saves as RC822 data, i.e. same data as off the wire. 

Please refer Kat's comments at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33049#c17

	ji
	Comment 7 • 22 years ago

For the header problem mentioned in comments #3, please see bug 74424.

	ji
	Comment 8 • 22 years ago

I think, when saving the mail as html, we need to convert the attachment from
the its original charset (either from charset label or the charset value sniffed
by the auto detector) to the mail charset. With the current implementation, the
charset conversion is missing for the attachment. Naoki, what do you think?
I don't think the problem reported in this bug is related to auto detector since
the html file already has charset meta tag.

	Jeesun Cho Reporter
	Comment 9 • 22 years ago

>Jeesun, just to be sure: you are saving the attachment from the >envelope? and
we are talking about the multi-part message with different >encodings?

I'm not saving just the attachment. I'm saving the whole mail (a mail with
attachment) by going to File|Save As and select File.

>What's your system encoding, Jeesun?
Shift_JIS

	Jeesun Cho Reporter
	Comment 10 • 22 years ago

>I don't think the problem reported in this bug is related to auto detector
since
>the html file already has charset meta tag.

I don't see the charset meta tag in the saved html file. Please see the
attached html file. (This html file was created by: 1. I first sent a mail with
euc-jp htm file attached. 2. When I received the mail, I saved it as a html
file.)

	ji
	Comment 11 • 22 years ago

I see the charset meta tag in the saved html file in my case. 
Jeesun, could you attach the testing mail to the report? Thanks.

	Jeesun Cho Reporter
	Comment 12 • 22 years ago

I saved the mail in eml format and attached it here

	ji
	Comment 13 • 22 years ago

I can reproduce the charset meta tag problem with Jeesun's testing mail. Jeesun,
you may need to file a seperate bug for this. 

	marina
	Comment 14 • 22 years ago

qa over to jeesun

	Shanjian Li
	Comment 15 • 22 years ago

This should be a problem in mail save as instead of charset handling. Let me
assign to naoki and see what he thinks. 

	Jeesun Cho Reporter
	Comment 16 • 22 years ago

I saw this on Mac OSX too.
nominate this bug. Without fixing the problem, when mail gets saved, attachments
with JA encoding can't be seen properly.

	Jeesun Cho Reporter
	Comment 17 • 22 years ago

>I can reproduce the charset meta tag problem with Jeesun's testing mail. Jeesun,
>you may need to file a seperate bug for this. 

For meta tag missing problem see the bug 180032

	marina
	Comment 18 • 22 years ago

changing qa contact

	Samir Gehani
	Comment 19 • 22 years ago

i18n triage team: nsbeta1-

	Frank Tang
	Comment 20 • 20 years ago

both naoki and I are off mozilla for about 20 monthes. If these bugs are still
here, the real status is 'wont fix'. If you want to reopen it, please find a
better owner who really looking at the bug database now. 

	Travis Chase
	Comment 21 • 20 years ago

Mass Reassign Please excuse the spam

	Travis Chase
	Comment 22 • 20 years ago

Mass Re-opening Bugs Frank Tang Closed on Wensday March 02 for no reason, all
the spam is his fault feel free to tar and feather him

	Travis Chase
	Comment 23 • 20 years ago

Reassigning Franks old bugs to Jungshik Shin for triage - Sorry for spam

	buovjaga
	Comment 24 • 7 years ago

Still repro with example file.

Thunderbird 52.1.1 (32-bit)
Windows 7 64-bit