Re: [Evolution] i18n buglets

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On 27 Mar 2001 22:01:49 +0200, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I came across several minor problems related to the handling of
> non-ascii text:
>
> 1. When I use the combined US and Czech keyboard (XkbLayout czsk,
> XkbVariant us_cz_qwerty)
> and switch to the Czech one (via ScrollLock), the mail composition
> window ignores Enter, Backspace, Home, End etc. The arrow keys do not
> move the cursor in the composition window but rather move it out to the
> header text fields. The accented letters work. The Czech-only keyboard
> (XkbLayout cs) works fine except
>
> 2. With any Czech keyboard, the combination of the acute dead key and
> the letter 'o' should produce 'o with acute accent' (0xf3) but instead
> 'n with acute accent' (0xf1) comes out - this is probably a typo but I
> wasn't able to locate it. Other (even Gnome) apps don't have this
> problem.

Maybe it's not using the right charset and/or font? I dunno...

> 3. In the header fields of the outgoing messages, the spaces between
> non-ascii words are lost. This
> is what happens to a Subject consisting of two Czech words:
>
> Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?mal=FD?= =?iso-8859-2?Q?test=ED=E8ek?=
>
> There are two quoted-printable encoded-words here and the receiving
> mailer (including Evo) discards the space between them (which is correct
> according to RFC 2047). The space separating the two words should either
> also be encoded as '=20' or '_' (underline) should be used. Anyway, I
> would personally prefer to have it as a single encoded-word. And
> although it's allowed, I am also wondering about inconsistent
> capitalization of iso-8859-2.

The capitalization of the charset (iso-8859-2) doesn't matter, I'll look
into encoding the space though. I think I spotted this bug a while ago
but the code has changed a few times since then I think.

> 4. Message sorting gives incorrect sort order for non-English locales.

Which columns? all of them? (other than the icon columns I'd imagine)

> But otherwise, Evolution is basically usable for handling mails and
> other info with accented letters.
> Thanks, guys!

Thanks for the bug reports!

Jeff