[Evolution] External editor and line feeds

[Kim Foltz <kafoltz cox net>]

I am running Evolution 3.2.0.5 on OpenSuse 42.2 with KDE and have tried to use an external editor to respond to existing messages. The email header shows Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8. Carriage returns/line feeds are converted to a capital A with a caret(^) on top. I have tried several different editors and am currently using Kompozer. When finished and the external editor is closed the message is returned to Evolution with the carriage returns/line feeds removed. Everything is left as one long line with no carriage returns/line feeds in the message.

Is there a way to preserve the original layout from Evolution in the external editor?