Re: [Evolution] Character encoding in 1.4.x

[Mike Gifford <mike openconcept ca>]

Their mailers could be screwed, but it's a pretty huge company
(sympatico.ca) so I think they'd have someone look into it..  But it's
an intermittent problem, so who knows..

Hmm..  I suppose I could just bcc myself on everything...  That should
give me a duplicate of the problem as much as is possible...

Mike

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:50, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> I have no idea, perhaps their mailers are broken :-)
>
> You should probably use iso-8859-1 rather than UTF-8 as a number of
> mailers out there are still back in the stone age and don't yet support
> UTF-8, sadly.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:45, Mike Gifford wrote:
> > Hello Jeff,
> >
> > Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
> >
> > It was set to Western European (ISO-8859-1) previously.  I've since
> > changed it to UTF-8.  
> >
> > If both should work fine for sending English characters, why have I
> > gotten 3 emails in the last 2 weeks saying that folks can't read my
> > emails (because of problems with the character set).
> >
> > I've only heard back from folks I communicate with on a fairly regular
> > basis.  I haven't been able to get a look at the headers from the emails
> > yet..  It might just be a problem with some folks on some email clients
> > (probably OutLook), but I've never had this problem before...
> >
> > Could the character set be corrupted somewhere else?  Perhaps by my
> > ISP's SMTP server?
> >
> > I'm grasping at straws here..
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:35, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > Evolution uses your systems charset by default (which is UTF-8 on Red
> > > Hat 8 and 9, for example). If you are just sending English, you can use
> > > ISO-8859-1.
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:14, Mike Gifford wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I've received notices from a couple people know that my messages aren't
> > > > readable.  One person thought it was greek another croatian.
> > > >
> > > > Most recently it was this message that a client reported:
> > > >
> > > > > This message uses a character set that is not supported by the
> > > > > Internet Service.  To view the original message content,  open the
> > > > > attached message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the
> > > > > attachment to disk, and then open it using a viewer that can display
> > > > > the original character set. 
> > > >
> > > > I only use text messages, so I found this very confusing.  My default
> > > > character set was set to Western European (which I figured would be fine
> > > > for English).  What should it be for English?  I've switched it to UTF-8
> > > > as that seems to be the default.
> > > >
> > > > I'm using Evolution 1.4.4
> > > >
> > > > I'm starting to get worried that a whole wack of emails that I've sent
> > > > might be undecipherable by the folks on the other end.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Mike
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