Re: [Evolution] Problem with character encoding?

[Zan Lynx <zlynx acm org>]

On 2/17/2017 5:17 AM, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > Yes, if I choose ISO-8859-1 instead of default, which is UTF-8, then
> > everything looks ok except for the subject..
> Could you show us the source of the message - removing any personal
> information of course. We would need to see the mime structure of the
> message and any headers relating to character encoding.
>
> > So it's better but not 100%. Also, shouldn't Evolution figure this
> > out by itself or? (at least since Thunderbird does..)
> Well Thunderbird is Thunderbird and Evolution isn't!  It could be down
> to assumptions that TB makes that Evo doesn't or some error in the mime
> structure that TB accepts but Evo doesn't.
Thunderbird has a "Fallback Encoding" which is set per folder. You can 
right-click on a folder and change it in Properties.

If the message specifies an encoding, that takes over unless you change 
it in View. You can also go into Options, Display, Formatting, Advanced, 
and change the defaults there. Unicode UTF-8 has been the default sender 
encoding in Thunderbird for a while.

So the differences are just because Evolution is defaulting to UTF-8 and 
Thunderbird to ISO-8859-1 for messages that don't specify their encoding.

A quick Google shows this for changing it in Evolution:
https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/mail-displaying-character-encodings.html.en

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