On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 15:29 +0100, Giacomo Tufano wrote: > 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).
I have my character coding set to UTF-8. In your example above, I can see all of your examples correctly other than the Euro character. Not sure if this helps any.... Regards, Des -- Des Dougan, Principal Dougan Consulting Group Ph: 604-980-2848 Email: des at DouganConsulting dot com www.DouganConsulting.com Design - Implementation - Support _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list