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I'm seeing this issue only on Ubuntu, it does not happen on Fedora 6, 7
so I filed this against Ubuntu not Mozilla site.
1. Using Japanese desktop environment.
2. Start Thunderbird and set up the user account
3. Change the preference to
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 2);
the default is 1.
4. Try to reply to someone
The reply header is correct, no garbled characters. The date format is Japanese
and contains Japanese characters.
"On 2007年10月26日 18:49, xxxxxxx wrote:"
5. But it's not good when I send email to English folks, so I want to
change the date format to English. So set the following,
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_locale", "en-US");
6. Try to reply. Unfortunately the date format can not be changed, it's
still including Japanese characters. Bad thing is that these characters
are garbled, like
On 2007年10月26日 18:49, xxxxxx wrote:
This problem does not happen on Fedora.
** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Confirmed
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Setting reply_header_locale to en-US does not work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157638
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