Bug of Mozilla Thunderbird for Chinese email attachment
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
[Old blog on 13-05-2006 @Orange is me]
Thunderbird is my favorite email client. However, I found some interesting things while using it today. We all know that English version of windows XP support Asian language input. You can type and view Asian characters after install CJK language package, which is quite convenient for people like me.
Today, I'm trying to send an email with an Word attachment both name and content written in Chinese using Mozilla Thunderbird and using UTF-8 for character encoding. Some strange things happened.
- Sina: You can not see the attachment at all.
- Hotmail: The attachment become like Attach.bin, and you are forced to open it with Microsoft word by using "Open with" function.
- Yahoo: It is almost same like Hotmail, the attachment become like File.bin.
- Gmail: The attached word file's name changed to gibberish name, but you can still open it as normal.
I believe the problem is caused by Thunderbird, it only encode the email content with UTF-8 while not the name of the attachment. Then the above email system can not recognize the attachment correctly.
Looks like Gmail is slightly superior than the other email systems. Maybe it is because my outgoing SMTP server is Gmail in Thunderbird. A conclusion for comparation of different email system is far to reach.
posted by Orange Cheng @ 4:51 AM,
