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[rduke15 <1166104@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Same problem here, with Ubuntu 12.04 and TB 38.2.0.

The received message is really UTF8, and it's headers (and multipart
heders) seem correct (the sender used Apple Mail 2.2).

If I open the message in the viewer, it displays correctly, but under
View->Character Encoding, TB has selected "Western" instead of
"Unicode". When forwarding the message, it gets double-encoded.

If in the viewer I change View->Character Encoding to "Unicode", the
message still displays correctly, as if I didn't change anything, but
now forwarding also works correctly and the encoding is preserved.

It feels as if TB would ignore the mail headers and try to autodetect
the encoding, getting it wrong. This auto-detected charset is then only
used with forwarding, not for displaying the mail in the viewer, or for
replies. Very strange.

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Title:
  Forwarding a message breaks character encoding

Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I received an email (MIME, multipart, UTF-8 text specified for both
  HTML and Plain parts). When I click Forward Message then the encoding
  gets broken.

  It appears that the UTF-8 has been interpreted as Latin-1 (or at least
  not UTF8) and 'converted' into UTF8, even though it already was, so I
  see (what could be) double-encoded characters.

  The mail was from Yahoo: X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.140.532

  The message displays fine. If I hit Reply, that's fine. If I start a
  new message and copy-and-paste, that works properly. It appears to be
  just the Forward button that's broken.

  Both Forward and Shift-Forward exibit the same behaviour.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: thunderbird 17.0.4+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-39.62-generic 3.2.39
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-39-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
  AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
  Architecture: amd64
  ArecordDevices:
   **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
   card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC269VB Analog [ALC269VB Analog]
     Subdevices: 1/1
     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  rich       1995 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p:   rich       1995 F...m pulseaudio
  BuildID: 20130308132820
  Card0.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xc0600000 irq 43'
     Mixer name	: 'Intel CougarPoint HDMI'
     Components	: 'HDA:10ec0269,10250513,00100100 HDA:80862805,80860101,00100000'
     Controls      : 26
     Simple ctrls  : 12
  Channel: Unavailable
  Date: Mon Apr  8 10:33:02 2013
  ForcedLayersAccel: False
  IfupdownConfig:
   auto lo
   iface lo inet loopback
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
  IpRoute:
   default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth2  proto static 
   169.254.0.0/16 dev eth2  scope link  metric 1000 
   192.168.1.0/24 dev eth2  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.6  metric 2
  MarkForUpload: True
  MostRecentCrashID: bp-022d6a4f-83a0-49e7-bac3-3739c2120718
  PrefSources: prefs.js
  Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=17.0.4/20130308132820 (In use)
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   cinnamon          1.6.7-0ubuntu1~precise1
   totem-mozilla     3.4.3-0ubuntu1~precise1
   rhythmbox-mozilla 2.97-1ubuntu1~precise1
   gnome-shell       3.4.1-0ubuntu2
  RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
  SourcePackage: thunderbird
  SubmittedCrashIDs: bp-022d6a4f-83a0-49e7-bac3-3739c2120718
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  WifiSyslog: Apr  8 10:29:42 reech wpa_supplicant[1138]: WPA: Group rekeying completed with 00:0f:b5:b0:77:a6 [GTK=TKIP]
  dmi.bios.date: 03/16/2012
  dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
  dmi.bios.version: V1.20
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
  dmi.board.name: SJV70_HR
  dmi.board.vendor: Acer
  dmi.board.version: Base Board Version
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
  dmi.chassis.version: V1.20
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV1.20:bd03/16/2012:svnAcer:pnAspire5750:pvrV1.20:rvnAcer:rnSJV70_HR:rvrBaseBoardVersion:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrV1.20:
  dmi.product.name: Aspire 5750
  dmi.product.version: V1.20
  dmi.sys.vendor: Acer

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