Re: [Evolution] Problems with cyrillic

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 00:31 +0100, Арангел Ангов wrote:
> I couldn't find anything in the archive so that's why I decided to write
> about it here.
>
> Just started using Evolution some weeks ago. I have the following
> problem: 
>
> I have selected UTF-8 in both the Composer and Mail Preferences and
> somehow when I send an e-mail, my "Subject" and "From" fields turn into
> a bunch of hieroglyphs.

what exactly do you mean by "turned into a bunch of hieroglyphs"?

Are you saying "=?iso-8859-5?Q?=E2=D5=E1=E2?=" is a hieroglyph? or is it
a font rendering problem on the receiver's end when rendering the text?

=?iso-8859-5?Q?=E2=D5=E1=E2?= is just your text encoded into a 7bit
representation for safe transit over the internet.

>  For example, I put a subject "тест" which is
> "test" but in cyrillic and in the source of the message I get
> "?iso-8859-5?Q?=E2=D5=E1=E2?=".
>
> The same thing happens with my name which is also written in cyrillic.
>
> Did someone had problems with this before me? I don't understand why it
> converts the charachters into something else when I've only chosen
> UTF-8. :\

Not all mail clients in the world support UTF-8 (sadly, I am told that
Outlook doesn't for example). The MIME rfcs also suggest clients to try
and use the least-common-denominator charset for header encoding, which
is why Evolution used iso-8859-5 - it is MUCH more likely that clients
will support is-8859-5 over UTF-8.

> Anyone?
>
> PS You can see the same stuff if you open the source of this message.
-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.novell.com