Re: [Evolution] Problem with character encoding?

[Bjørn T Johansen <btj havleik no>]

On 17.02.2017 14:54, Zan Lynx wrote:
> 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

Thx for the explanation, did not know that.

BTJ