Re: [Evolution] charset setting

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 07:08, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> On Ne, 2002-04-21 at 21:48, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The body of the original message (produced by mutt) was only 7bit ASCII.
> As a matter of fact, most people in my country choose to use mutilated
> language without accents in their emails. My reply only had ISO-8859-2
> characters.

Can you perhaps open a new bug on bugzilla.ximian.com, and attach both
an example original message, and an example reply message to it? 
Thanks.

> > IMHO, it's not our problem if other mailers don't support standard
> > charsets. Other mailers send *us* not only non-standard charsets, but
>
> Well, the affected mailers are elm and pine. On the other hand, Outlook
> is fine with UTF-8.

Does setting the charset in the composer manually help any?  Or is that
what you were doing?

> > sometimes even broken encodings yet we still have to deal with them.
> >
> > Summary: "it's not fair!"
>
> OK, but I don't like the idea of sending mail that people can't read.
> They call me freak :-)

Naah its good, less replies to deal with!