Upstream has fixed the issue and your example mail works fine with the patch, I'll backport it to the dapper package
** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed Target: None => ubuntu-6.06 -- Evolution can't handle Latin characters when system encoding is set to UTF-8 https://launchpad.net/bugs/19760 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs