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

[John Schmidt <jschmidt amis com>]

Not,

I'd be happy to do this.  Should this be entered as a bug, or should I just send the data to you (or Jeff) off-list?

John

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 21:44, Not Zed wrote:
> 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.  
> > 
> > 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. 
> > 
> > js
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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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