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

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net>]

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!
> 
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