Howdy Jeff, On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 12:43, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > Well, I'm stumped. The way charsets work in Evolution's composer is > this: > 1. everything is actually composed in UTF-8 (unicode can represent all > characters) > 2. when the user hits Send, a message is constructed from the contents > of the composer > 3. the message body text is first checked to see if it contains any > characters that do not fit within US-ASCII. If it can be represented by > US-ASCII, we're finished. > 4. Now we check to see if we can fit the contents into the composer's > charset (each composer allows you to override the default composer > charset). if it works, we use this... > 5. Next we check the default composer charset. If yes, then done. > 6. Failing the above, we try the user's default mail viewing charset. If > that works, done. > 7. if we still haven't found an appropriate charset, we pass the text > through a "guess me" filter which can recognise 10 to 15 charsets or > so... all single-byte charsets such as koi8-r, windows-1251, iso-8859-* > and maybe a few others (I don't have the table in front of me). If none > of those charsets in the table are appropriate, we fall back to UTF-8
Thanks for this explanation. When does the 7-bit/8-bit encoding come into effect? On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 13:12, Russell wrote to Peter: > On 12 Sep 2003, Peter wrote: > > This message looks fine. I use Evolution and have never adjusted the > > default character set, which is: Western European, New (ISO-8859-15). > > I'm not sure you can even change the character encoding in evolution > > (which I believe is UTF-8). > > Your message didn't use 8-bit at all, but 7-bit ASCII > > Content-Type: text/plain > Mime-Version: 1.0 > X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > No character set was listed at all with your message. On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 13:37, Russell wrote to Me: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Mike Gifford wrote: > > > Thanks Peter.. I'm still not sure what's up.. But having 3 folks > > complain about a similar problem is making me a bit nervous.. If I > > managed to nail this bug down any more I'll let you know.. Might just > > be something screwy with sympatico's smtp server. it's up & down a lot > > these days. > > I highly doubt that the Sympatico SMTP server is changing your character > set to Greek: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Peter had 7bit encoding and text/plain type without a character set > encoding at all. iso-8859-7 is (literally) Greek > http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html#ISO-8859-7 Is there somewhere I can just turn off the extra language attribute on the Content-Type? > so... I guess check that your composer charset value is not iso-8859-7. > Go to the Edit->Character Encoding menu in the composer. I checked there (thought didn't know that it existed here previously), and it was Western European.. Never the less the test email was: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Organization: OpenConcept Consulting http://www.openconcept.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 15:46:34 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit this was just a text message, so not sure. I just tried sending a html message and the language wasn't listed at all: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-xc59HdlW1Q8mJXmxbICf" Organization: OpenConcept Consulting http://www.openconcept.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Any way to proceed/trouble shoot this any more? Mike -- Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting Free Software for Social Change -> http://www.openconcept.ca Fair Vote Petition - http://www.fairvotecanada.org/petition.php The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house - A Lorde _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
