Re: [Evolution] UTF-8: Non-ASCII in subject: –

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 19:53 +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Hmm, I do not have any problems with this message either.

        Hi,
Paul sent me the email and I see the difference there. While this 
message has the dash in subject encoded as:
   =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=93?=
the original message, which is printed incorrectly in the message 
list, has it encoded as:
   =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=96?=
The later is transformed into UTF-8 and then into HTML as:
   –
while the former is transformed into HTML as:
   –

Both are properly shown by the WebKit, but not by cairo/pango (I 
printed the subject text into the terminal and it also shows the dash 
as an unprintable character there, the same way evolution's message 
list does).

When I convert this 0x96 character from iso-8859-1 to utf-8 using
iconv [1], which the Camel (in evolution-data-server) does too, I get a
two-byte sequence 0xC2 0x96, just like in Camel.

Do not ask me why the Webkit can handle the letter properly, I do not 
know it. Maybe they use a different converter, which knows that dash.

        Bye,
        Milan

[1] The command I used was:
    $ iconv -f=iso-8859-1 -t=utf-8 <a.txt >b.txt