Re: [Evolution] feature request: reply message

[Alexey Morozov <morozov novosoft ru>]

Terje Eggestad wrote:

> Actually, for us who live in non english speaking part of the world, and
> run with locale set to something other than english, the "On DATE, NAME
> wrote:" header is set to local language (see below), which is pretty
> cool, but I need the ability to set the "language" of the e-mail, since
> we regulrarly send e-mails in various languages.
Actually that was the first think I asked for after installing the 
evolution :-). I said: using UTF-8 as the base mail encoding is cool but 
in fact most of my mails come in w/  KOI8-R (Cyrillic, the first 
de-facto standard for the Net in the ex-USSR) encoding, some - w/ 
MICROSOFT-CP1251 (another Cyrillic, MS invention :-)) and few broken 
have ISO8859-1 (in fact most of them are CP1251 :-)). I asked about 
ability to change/set character set of the message but got an answer: 
we're planning that feature in future releases.

That's why I wrote this mail from within Mozilla Mail (that in fact 
seems to be the best X Window mail agent when we talk about locale support).

> Since most mails have the charset  field set, in "reply to" it's then
> natural to keep that as the language of the replied mail.
Probably the most proper way is to use some autoguessing (based on 
several things like message specified charset, default charset for the 
mailbox, frequency analysis etc) plus ability to change things manually.

> This'll be a a bonus later when spell checking is added to teh composer.
Sure.

> as a side note, since you already has the ability to define different id
> and then have different sigs, etc.it should then be easy to add a
> language/locale field here, and thus set the locale of a mail as you
> select sender id.
This would be fine but I'd consider this as 'not-a-must' feature...

Alexey Morozov