Re: [Evolution] Problems with mail display

[Markus Lang <mlang pp htv fi>]

On 18 Dec 2000 16:16:49 +0200, Berend De Schouwer wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:13:17 Markus Lang wrote:
> > On 18 Dec 2000 14:50:35 +0100, José Manuel Nunes wrote:
> > > With the .8 preview I can't correctly read a mail including non ascii
> > > chars. The displays stops at the last non ascii char and resumes (it
> > > seems to me) only after a newline or line break.
> > > I've read on the list something about changing font types and also
> > > changing locales and tried several options but without success.
> > > In case it mathers I'm on a debian potato with a 2.2.17 and installing
> > > via  apt-get.
> >
> > I'm having same kind of problems, and tried the locale-changing, but the
> > problem prevails.
> >
> > I tried changing the locale to fi_FI (I'm in Finland), en_GB and en_US,
> > but they all behave the same: when I try to input an 8-bit character,
> > the cursor does not move. Still, a backspace is needed to return the
> > cursor to the position where it was before typing! So, something does
> > happen, the character just doesn't display correctly?
>
> Can you try cut & paste the blank space into another application?


Nope. The cursor remains at the same position when entering 8-bit chars,
so there is nothing to select.

What I forgot to mention in the last mail is that when I use compose,
the chars appear correctly, but I have the HTML option off.

I use kernel version 2.4.0-test11.

Markus