Re: [Evolution] Unknown encoding

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

I fixed the 'charset=' (without a charset) bug in 1.4.1, iirc it had to
do with the charset not existing on the local unix system (we forgot to
filter it thru e_iconv_charset_name)

anyways, 1.4.1 should set charset=iso-8859-1

Jeff

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 10:35, Armin Bauer wrote:
> This was the encoding from the mail that did not work correctly:
> --=-rhJSTEbWAELwhpEgdA80
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> This is the encoding after we changed the field encoding under
> preferences (which was indeed empty) to the ISO charset:
> --=-qBXbhLmmkXJWkHYXL/IZ
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> Is this correct now?
>
> Another strange thing is this:
> This is the encoding of the HTML-Part:
> --=-qBXbhLmmkXJWkHYXL/IZ
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> Why is it still utf-8?
>
> Armin Bauer
>
> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 15:25, Dan Winship wrote:
> > > We are using the standard ISO-8859-1 encoding.
> >
> > Are you sure? Evolution will automatically change charsets as needed if
> > you type (or otherwise include) any foreign characters that aren't in
> > ISO-8859-1. Do a "Show Email Source" on one of the messages in your Sent
> > folder to make sure that it actually did get sent as ISO-8859-1.
> >
> > > Another strange thing is the X-Mailer the other person used:
> > > X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19)
> > >
> > > Can someone give me a hint about this? Is this an old Exchange Server?
> > > Can this be solved by switching the encoding to UTF-8?
> >
> > Yes, that's Exchange 5.5. But it really should understand latin1...
> > Switching to UTF-8 would probably be worse.
> >
> > -- Dan
>
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