Re: [Evolution] Problems with cyrillic



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




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