Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evo won't display special characters

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net>]

Is there any hope of anyone looking into this?  I'm not even sure if
it's a gtkhtml bug or an Evo bug at this point, all I know is I'm
constantly being forced to forward email to my Exchange account and read
it with Outlook in Crossover Linux, because Evo can't display these
messages.

Tres embarrassing!!

If someone provides a patch I'm happy to test it.


On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 08:55 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> Hi all; I was away last week.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas about how to push this issue forward?  Is it a
> problem/missing feature in Evo or in gtkhtml?  Or both?
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 18:17 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 14:14 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 23:13 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> > > > Hi all.  Occasionally I get email from someone and they include a
> > > > special character in the email (this is html mail).  When this happens,
> > > > the entire paragraph/section of that email is completely elided and only
> > > > a [?] token is shown in the email, no matter how large the HTML segment
> > > > is.
> > > 
> > > 	Hi,
> > > there is filled a very similar MAPI bug here:
> > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600386
> > > 
> > > though with respect of sanitizing incorrect letters is filled:
> > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610797
> > 
> > Hi Milan; I finally got around to trying this (sorry for the delay).
> > The patch attached to the second bug did indeed fix my problem and I was
> > able to read my emails with only occasional "<?>" glyphs instead of
> > entire paragraphs elided.  Yay!
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I realized that this completely messed up the Evo
> > composer, so that when I tried to send an email every character I typed
> > showed that character, then 3-4 bizarre graphical glyphs afterwards.
> > 
> > So, I had to remove the patch again.
> > 
> > It would be really, really nice if someone could provide a patch that
> > fixes the display issue without crushing the composer.
> > 
> > I'll be happy to test it and hopefully it won't take me so long next
> > time.
> > 
> > Cheers!