I just discovered (by some angry reply to my messages) that evolution (currently using 2.5.4 on OpenSolaris build 32, but the problem, AFAIK, was existing also in 1.4.x version) do not correctly handle accented characters.
Apparently in the message evo sends the character code header is missing and the text is encoded UTF-8, whatever the coding I choose in the program. This email as a sample, I'm logged with an it_IT.ISO8859-15 locale in Nevada_32, Edit->Character encoding is 'Western European, New (iso8859-15)'. The euro gliph don't appear when I press AltGr-E (it works in, say, thunderbird), but appears as '¤'. Every accented char appears as garbage on the receiving side: some sample being 'à ' (this is a accented grave) or 'ì' (i accented grave) or '§' (this is the paragraph gliph). You can see it (from a non evo client in a different locale) if you force (UTF-8) as the encoding (just make a check). HTML composing apparently works... in the "text only" part of the message (yes, it sends always multipart messages with a text and html part) says: - Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT the text encoded UTF-8 - In the html: Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT [...] qualità, à è é ì ò ù °§<BR> - The html part is readable, of course, from any email client. Just wandering if nobody noticed this one before and, from another point of view, if there is some Evo user that do not use US keyboard and ASCII text (and, therefore, is not impacted by this problem). Or, may be, it is a Solaris problem... Any hint/info/workaround/open bug/whatever? I like Evo (I know, probably I'm masochist-kind) but this is (obviously) a blocker for email use, if not using html (that, correctly, it is not always welcome on the receiving side). Regards, gt _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
