Re: [Evolution] Chinese text interoperability

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

have you tried selecting the right character encoding from the view menu and the right character set settings?

Those &#xxx; things i assume are in the html part of the mail right?  If it truly is text/plain then yahoo is seriously busted since that isn't plain text.

On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 13:02 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> If I send Chinese (simplified) from evo and read it in evo using the
> IIIMF that comes with FC2, then things work fine.  The text looks as it
> should (some symbols are missing from its dictionary, like the word for
> "peach", but it's decent for a first release).
>
> Also, if my wife sends Chinese (simplified) from yahoo mail (in mozilla)
> and reads it in yahoo mail (in mozilla), again using FC2's IIIMF, things
> again look fine.
>
> However, if my wife sends the same sort of IIIMF simplified Chinese text
> to me again with yahoo mail, again with mozilla on FC2, and I read it in
> evo on FC2, I see a bunch of stuff like:
>
> 	你 好 妈？
>
> At first, I thought it might be because yahoo mail is setting the
> charset to:
>
> Content-Type:  text/plain; charset=us-ascii.
>
> However, we switched her to:
>
> Content-Type:  text/plain; charset=gb2312
> Content-Transfer-Encoding:  8bit
>
> ...and it still isn't interoperating.
>
> Is there any way to get yahoo mail+mozilla and evo to do Simplified
> Chinese in a common way?

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer