Re: [Evolution] Suddenly Japanese language no longer working

[Ángel <angel 16bits net>]

On 2021-07-17 at 08:48 +0000, Axel Lieber wrote:
> Been using Evolution for about a half year now (on Ubuntu). Through
> several updates there was never any problem, Japanese language emails
> would be displayed correctly and writing them was also fine. Never
> had to do anything special, it just worked.  Three days ago (I think)
> there was a wholesale automatic update to the system. The sort that
> includes a hodgepodge of stuff, including firmware updates, drivers,
> libraries and also Evolution. Since that update, Japanese appears as
> gibberish. I've tried changing the character encoding settings to no
> avail. Wasn't ever necessary before, and shouldn't be. But anyway, I
> tried, and no dice. 
>
> Ubuntu 20.04
> Evolution EWS 3.40.3

I guess Evolution itself is 3.40.3 as well?

> Any suggestions? 

View → Message source

See which charset the message states to be (should be in the Content-
Type: header).
Check which charset it is actually using. You may need to decode some
base64 or quoted-printable. Then test some encoding (you can use
iconv(1)) to find out this. Typically the Japanese will be in JIS or
UTF-8.

Then, knowing which kind of encoding was used, and marked which don't
work should help finding out the error.


Regards