Re: [Evolution] Re: [Users] Quoted Printable?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Well has anyone bothered to actually get some real test data, or are
they happy just to talk about it not working?

The message in the original is clearly broken, and seems to conform to
no basic 7 or 8 bit character set, or even any 16 bit character sets.

Nobody's explained which clients it works in, or saved the data as a raw
message from them.  Or explained which locale they run in, or what the
content actually is, or anything much else really apart from "this
doesn't work, and here's a bustificated message".

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 08:46 -0700, John Schmidt wrote:
> No, it's probably not a bug in the strictest sense.  But if other
> tools can render it ok and evo can't, then it's still a problem.  
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> This condition happens to me about once a week and I have to use
> Netscape to read a particular message.  It makes it difficult to try
> to convince my peers to switch to evolution if it can't read messages
> that Netscape, Outlook etc can...  
>
> As for changing to UTF8 or UTF7, that doesn't seem to work for the
> messages I'm seeing. 
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> js
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> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 00:36, Pete Biggs wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 20:49, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
> > > I've been receiving a few emails that render as what looks like kanji or
> > > some other Asian character set but the sender swears they are in English
> > > and that everyone else (i.e. non-Evolution users) can read the emails
> > > just fine. I've included what seem to be the relevant headers and a
> > > portion of the content below. This seems to be the same problem
> > > described in Glen's post from January (also quoted below). In
> > > particular, I noticed the X-Mailer header in both reference "Smartcode
> > > ObjectSet 1.0" - maybe a buggy email program or SDK of some sort?
> >
> > Have you tried changing the char encoding?  (View->Character Encoding) 
> > I find that changing to UTF8 or UTF7 helps a lot.
> >
> > And as others have said, it's not particularly a bug in evo afaics -
> > it's that the mail doesn't specify the character encoding.  I presume
> > the other mail programs you have default to the same encoding as is used
> > in the email, so it appears to render OK, whereas evo defaults to 7-bit
> > ASCII (probably as specified in the standards) and so it doesn't render
> > properly.
> >
> > P.
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