Evolution does not use the character encoding that is hinted at in the subject line
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Evolution |
New
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Wishlist
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evolution (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: evolution
When receiving e-mails that do not correctly include information about the character encoding used, evolution does not display the e-mail correctly, even when the character encoding used is revealed in the subject line.
By looking at the raw e-mail, I presume the correct way to specify character encoding is by using the "Content-Type" MIME header.
However, if the subject of the e-mail is encoded using a specific character encoding (by following the following standard: http://
I know this is one of those cases, where the easiest solution would be if the e-mail client sending the message would just follow the standard correctly, but I think that we as Linux users are currently in a situation where we gain more by adapting to the various flaws in non-standard e-mail clients, rather than try to get them to adhere to the standard, using our relatively tiny market share.
We do this with hardware drivers in the kernel - adapt to the various quirks that are there mostly because of non-standard ways in which Microsoft Windows handles the hardware. Why not do this as well with e-mail, which is quite a big part of any modern operating system?
Example:
I receive an e-mail with the following content:
Subject: =?iso-8859-
Sender: "=?iso-
From: "=?iso-
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:47:48 +0200
To: "=?iso-
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: JMail 4.4 by Dimac
Content-Type: text/html
Content-
The "Content-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: evolution 2.28.3-0ubuntu10
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 21 13:19:05 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100405)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_DK.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
tags: | added: likely-dup |
Changed in evolution: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in evolution: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in evolution: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/Bugs/ Upstream/ GNOME)