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.
** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #1469335 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1469335 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1677335 Title: Outgoing mail is always windows-1252 encoded by default Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1677335/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
