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UTF-16 message received by Thunderbird displayed garbled

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jammac
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Is Thunderbird supposed to be correctly interpreting UTF-16 messages?

I have the following non-multipart HTML message in UTF-16 and it shows up garbled:

Relevant headers: 

X-Mailer: SAP NetWeaver 750
Content-Type: text/html;
 charset="utf-16le"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Start of body: 

=FF=FE<=00h=00t=00m=00l=00>=00<=00h=00e=00a=00d=00>=00<=00s=00t=00y=00l=00e=
=00 =00t=00y=00p=00e=00=3D=00=22=00t=00e=00x=00t=00/=00c=00s=00s=00=22=00>=

Is this bug 997050 ?

Is Thunderbird supposed to be correctly interpreting UTF-16 messages? I have the following non-multipart HTML message in UTF-16 and it shows up garbled: Relevant headers: X-Mailer: SAP NetWeaver 750 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-16le" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Start of body: =FF=FE<=00h=00t=00m=00l=00>=00<=00h=00e=00a=00d=00>=00<=00s=00t=00y=00l=00e= =00 =00t=00y=00p=00e=00=3D=00=22=00t=00e=00x=00t=00/=00c=00s=00s=00=22=00>= Is this bug 997050 ?

Modified by jammac

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Matt
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if it is not mime, why does it have the mime header? Of cource it is mime encoded.

Now as to the encoding. Some bugs that might shed light.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=997050 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275021 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244330 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961983 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1026989

The more I look the less I understand.

jammac
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Matt said

if it is not mime, why does it have the mime header?

I meant of course: it's not multipart, argh, corrected

I see, 5-15 year old bugs. Well. Guess I'll have to tell the SAP guys to either send UTF-8 or it remains garbled.

Modified by jammac