Bug from 2010. Version not longer supportet.
Change status to Invalid (see gnome-bugs)
** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/596849
Title:
Evolution does not use the character encoding that is hinted at in the
subject line
Status in The Evolution Mail & Calendaring Tool:
New
Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Encoded-Word), wouldn't it be safe to assume
that the e-mail body - if it does not specifically specify a character encoding
- uses the same character encoding as the subject line? Are there any examples
where this might not be the case?
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-8859-1?Q?din_bestilling_-_ordre_nr_123456?=
Sender: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?someone@somewhere=2Edk?=" <[email protected]>
From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?someone@somewhere=2Edk?=" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:47:48 +0200
To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?mymailaddress@mail=2Ecom?=" <[email protected]>
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: JMail 4.4 by Dimac
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
The "Content-Type"-header does not correctly state that the character
encoding used is ISO-8859-1, but the subject line uses an Encoded-Word
to specify this information (and Evolution correctly displays the
subject line).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: evolution 2.28.3-0ubuntu10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
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
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