Re: [Evolution] charset setting

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

My gues is that you were responding to a message that was not truly
iso-8859-1, but rather windows-cp1252 or whatever. Since not all chars
in windows-cp1252 can be encoded into iso-8859-2, we had to auto-detect
the best charset to use which just happened to be UTF-8.

IMHO, it's not our problem if other mailers don't support standard
charsets. Other mailers send *us* not only non-standard charsets, but
sometimes even broken encodings yet we still have to deal with them.

Summary: "it's not fair!"

Jeff

On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 09:27, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am wondering about the rules for setting charset in the replies. When
> I compose a new message, as soon as its body contains any non-US-ASCII
> character, Evolution puts ISO-8859-2 into the charset field of the
> Content-Type header line. This corresponds to my setting  of Default
> character encoding in Tools->Mail Settings->Other. So far so good...
>
> However, in replies, the charset set in the reply depends on the charset
> of the original message, e.g.,
> - if the original has US-ASCII or ISO-8859-2, the reply has ISO-8859-2,
> - if the original has ISO-8859-1, the reply has UTF-8.
> Some mailers are not able to handle UTF-8 correctly so it causes real
> problems. And it seems there is no way how to influence this automatic
> charset setting.
>
> I'd suggest to include a config option for selecting specific charset in
> *all* outgoing messages that do not conform to US-ASCII, perhaps
> account-wise. The automatic behavior may be a real pain for people that
> have to communicate both in English and their native language that
> happens to use weird characters.
>
> Cheers, Lada
>
>
> -- 
> Ladislav Lhotka
>
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