Outgoing mail is always windows-1252 encoded by default

[Mark Sapiro]

Thunderbird 45.8.0
Ubuntu 16.04

When composing or replying in Thunderbird, the default encoding is Western (Windows-1252) regardless of the setting of Edit -> Preferences -> Display -> Advanced -> Text Encoding.

It doesn't matter that the setting for Outgoing Mail: is "Western (ISO-8859-1)" or "Western (Windows-1252)", either way the outgoing message is windows-1252 encoded.

If the setting for Outgoing Mail: is "Unicode (UTF-8)", then the outgoing message is utf-8 encoded, so that works. It is only "Western (ISO-8859-1)" that doesn't work.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Mark,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with default encoding in Thunderbird. You made this bug report over a year ago and there have been several versions of Ubuntu and Thunderbird since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect BUGNUMBER
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.
G

[Mark Sapiro (msapiro)]

This is still an issue with Ubuntu 16.04 and Thunderbird 52.9.1(64 bit)

The location of the setting is changed. It is now Edit -> Preferences -> Display -> Formatting -> Fonts & Colors -> Advanced -> Text Encoding, but when the

Text Encoding
  Set the default text encoding for sending and receiving mail
    Outgoing Mail:

setting is Western (ISO-8859-1) as in the attached screenshot, outgoing plain text messages are still encoded as Windows-1252

[Mark Sapiro (msapiro)]

I have just tested with Thunderbird 52.9.1 (64 bit) on Mac OS 10.13.6 and the same issue exists there, so this is not unique to Ubuntu. I have just reported this to Mozilla at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1477357>.

[Mark Sapiro (msapiro)]

This should probably be status: Won't Fix.

Mozilla answered the above bug report with a reference to <-https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1469335#c6> which cites <https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/> as an authoritative reference saying windows-1252 is the preferred name for iso-8859-1. latin1, etc., and future releases will remove iso-8859-1 as a choice for 'western' encoding.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Linked to upstream bug report on Mozilla, submitted by reporter 20 Jul 2018.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for the updates, Mark. Per your comment, I will get someone to change the status to "won't fix"
Have a great day!
:)
G