Re: [Evolution] ISO8859-15 encoding and Evolution text messages

[Des Dougan <des DouganConsulting com>]

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 15:29 +0100, Giacomo Tufano wrote:
> I just discovered (by some angry reply to my messages) that evolution
> (currently using 2.5.4 on OpenSolaris build 32, but the problem, AFAIK,
> was existing also in 1.4.x version) do not correctly handle accented
> characters.
>
> Apparently in the message evo sends the character code header is missing
> and the text is encoded UTF-8, whatever the coding I choose in the
> program.
>
> This email as a sample, I'm logged with an it_IT.ISO8859-15 locale in
> Nevada_32, Edit->Character encoding is 'Western European, New
> (iso8859-15)'.
>
> The euro gliph don't appear when I press AltGr-E (it works in, say,
> thunderbird), but appears as 'Â'. Every accented char appears as garbage
> on the receiving side: some sample being 'Ã' (this is a accented grave)
> or 'Ã' (i accented grave) or 'Â' (this is the paragraph gliph).

I have my character coding set to UTF-8. In your example above, I can
see all of your examples correctly other than the Euro character. 

Not sure if this helps any....


Regards,

Des
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