Re: [Evolution] ISO8859-15 encoding and Evolution text messages

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

Sounds to me like the mails are getting mangled by some third-party mail
software somewhere because Evolution ALWAYS tags the charset on outgoing
mail.

Also, I noticed that the Content-Transfer-Encoding was "8BIT", Evolution
would say "8bit" not "8BIT" so this definitely suggests mangling by some
other software - perhaps you should check your mail server software?

Jeff

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 15:29 +0100, Giacomo Tufano wrote:
> I just discovered (by some angry reply to my messages) that evolution
> (currently using 2.5.4 on OpenSolaris build 32, but the problem, AFAIK,
> was existing also in 1.4.x version) do not correctly handle accented
> characters.
> 
> Apparently in the message evo sends the character code header is missing
> and the text is encoded UTF-8, whatever the coding I choose in the
> program.
> 
> This email as a sample, I'm logged with an it_IT.ISO8859-15 locale in
> Nevada_32, Edit->Character encoding is 'Western European, New
> (iso8859-15)'.
> 
> The euro gliph don't appear when I press AltGr-E (it works in, say,
> thunderbird), but appears as '¤'. Every accented char appears as garbage
> on the receiving side: some sample being 'à' (this is a accented grave)
> or 'ì' (i accented grave) or '§' (this is the paragraph gliph).
> 
> You can see it (from a non evo client in a different locale) if you
> force (UTF-8) as the encoding (just make a check).
> 
> HTML composing apparently works... in the "text only" part of the
> message (yes, it sends always multipart messages with a text and html
> part) says:
> 
> -
> Content-type: text/plain
> Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT
> 
> the text encoded UTF-8
> -
> In the html:
> Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
> [...]
> qualit&#224;, &#224; &#232; &#233; &#236; &#242; &#249; &#176;&#167;<BR>
> -
> 
> The html part is readable, of course, from any email client.
> 
> Just wandering if nobody noticed this one before and, from another point
> of view, if there is some Evo user that do not use US keyboard and ASCII
> text (and, therefore, is not impacted by this problem). Or, may be, it
> is a Solaris problem...
> 
> Any hint/info/workaround/open bug/whatever? I like Evo (I know, probably
> I'm masochist-kind) but this is (obviously) a blocker for email use, if
> not using html (that, correctly, it is not always welcome on the
> receiving side).
> 
> Regards,
> gt
> 
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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