Re: [Evolution] Evo 1.4.x: Problems with German umlauts (e.g., bug #47646)

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> since switching to Evo 1.4.0 (currently I use 1.4.4) I've been
> experiencing strange problems with German umlauts [äöü] and "sz" [ß] (I
> hope you seem them correctly in this mail).

Sounds strangely familiar -- is it this bug?
 http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=46674


> Because of some clues I've come to suspect that the message length has
> something to do with it, and so I made a little test: I composed 1 short
> (12 characters) and 1 very long message (several hundred chars) with
> only (!) the offending characters, once encoded in UTF-8 and once in
> ISO-8859-15, and sent them to me via my ISP.

Feel free to add this info to the bug, if it applies.


> Is there any advice for what to do until this is fixed? Evo 1.4.x is
> quite unusable for me for German mails with this problem. Is it save to
> set the default encoding to UTF-8 in Settings?

View / Character Encoding / Unicode (UTF-8)

seems to display the messages correct. However, this is only viewing and
has nothing to to with the default Composer character encoding. I never
got a complaint about mangled chars on german mails -- I assume, they
are correct and the issue is locally when displaying.

...guenther


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