Re: [Evolution] iso-8859-2 when composing mail

[Larry Ewing <lewing ximian com>]

This was indeed a bug in gtkhtml, it is fixed in the development
snapshots.

--Larry

On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 01:30, Eric Lambart wrote:
> If it's only in the message window, it sounds like it must be a gtkhtml
> issue, not really Evolution (Evolution uses the gtkhtml package for
> creating/editing the message).
>
> I know this isn't answer to your problem, but I hope with that clue you
> might be able to find the answer.
>
> cheers
> -Eric
>
> On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 10:36, Davor Cengija wrote:
> > I'm using Mandrake 8.2 with KDE 2.2 and I set up Croatian language and
> > encoding iso-8859-2 (latin-2) as default. Every application I use works
> > just fine and accepts special latin-2 characters except Evolution
> > (upgraded to 1.0.8; still no luck).
> >
> > E.g. rxvt, konsole, knode, gimp... all accept special characters, even
> > Evolution accepts them when entering text in Subject: field but not in
> > message body.
> >
> > I'd say my setup is correct, since Evolution is actually able to display
> > latin-2 characters, but doesn't accept them from the keyboard.
> >
> > The closest to latin-2 I could come was when I set up my old xmodmap (I
> > don't use it now, X4.2 doesn't need it). Most of the applications still
> > work, but evolution displays latin-1 equivalents of the special
> > characters when composing mail. Additionally, encoding header is
> > switched to iso-8859-1 (initially set to iso-8859-2).
> >
> > Ah, yes -- when not using xmodmap, Evolution displays nothing when
> > special key is pressed. Actually, it doesn't even display an empty
> > space, or that empty box meaning 'unknown character'... simply, no
> > reaction of any kind.
> >
> > What I have to set up to force Evolution display iso-8859-2 characters
> > when composing mail (and to keep proper encoding header)?