Re: [Evolution] Character encoding specified in Content-Type field of outgoing messages

[Alex Viskovatoff <member viskov fastmail fm>]

On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 13:22, guenther wrote:

> Uh, in fact I can tell, ximian hackers are _way_ more open minded to
> non-US than the average American. And I believe, that applys to all OS
> folks out there...

Hi,

This is probably true. It turns out that Evolution has no preference as
far as I can tell for the ISO-8859-15 encoding (which contains the Euro
symbol) over ISO-8859-1 (which doesn't). Since I sent out my initial
query on this issue to the list, I have configured X-Window so that I
can type a '€' (Euro symbol) directly in Evolution using my US keyboard.
If I select ISO-8859-1 as the character encoding using the menu in the
message composition window, the message  with the '€' in it is still
sent out with ISO-8859-15 in the Content-Type field. This suggests that
what character encoding is selected in the "Character Encoding" menu is
simply ignored, as far as the message header that is constructed goes.

I would suggest that the developers consider removing this menu item,
since it appears to have no effect; otherwise, the function of this menu
item should be documented. At the moment, Evolution's behavior in this
respect is confusing.

Alex