Re: [Evolution] Weird Cyrillic-related bug

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

not a lot of use here ,has anyone opened a bug in bugzilla.ximian.com?

note we wont fix it for <1.5, but i suspect it's there too, since none
of the relevent code has changed at all, afaik.

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 15:36 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:

> hi,
>
> Am So, den 04.01.2004 schrieb Mikhail Ramendik um 11:32:
> > Evolution has a weird Cyrillic-related bug. It was in 1.2.3. It is in
> > 1.4.5. (A part of the subject line gets duplicated under certain
> > conditions).
>
> reopening this thread since i could verify this bug in evo1.2.4 and also
> in evolution-1.4.6.0.200403080631-0.snap.ximian.8.1.
> this *IS* an evolution bug, since this misbehaviour already takes place
> in my outbox/drafts so i do not have to send the message at all, just
> save it to disk!
> gpg-signing does not matter.
>
> mikhail, did you already fill a bug report to bugzilla? if, could you
> pass the url or bug number?
>
>
> how to reproduce it:
>
> set the subject of a new email to: "у Генпрокурату"
> (no idea what this means, by the way, i just wrote anything...)
>
> if i set the subject just to one word or if i put a space in front of
> the word, "Генпрокурату" or " Генпрокурату", there isn't any
> misbehaviour, but just adding a word in front of the last word with the
> last letter being also cyrillic (e.g. "zу Генпрокурату", the letter "z"
> is latin and not cyrillic, but you could also put anything cyrillic
> there instead of "z"), will get parts of the last word duplicated.
>
> if i put only latin letters like "z" in front of the last word (e.g. "z
> Генпрокурату"), nothing is duplicated.
>
> also if i cut off the last letter and set the subject to "у
> Генпрокурат", everything's as expected, so i suggest that a word being
> duplicated needs at least 12 letters.
>
> when *editing it*, it does not matter which codeset i choose.
> it also does not matter to change the charset when *viewing* it, so it
> must be a problem when saving the mail from the composer to the
> outbox/drafts.
>
> now really interested what is wrong here, example mail attached...
>
> До свидания,
>
> андрей  ;-)
>
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