Package: sylpheed
Version: 2.0.0-1
Severity: grave
Tags: l10n
Justification: causes non-serious data loss

When "edit with external editor" is choosen after a part of the message has 
already been composed in sylpheed's own editor, non-ASCII characters (japanese, 
for instance) are automatically replaced by the '_' character,  which
can cause a loss of the current message.

When the message is saved to the draft folder afterwards, the header contains: 

   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

When it is saved to the draft folder before using "edit with external editor", 
the header is 

   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

as expected (outgoing encoding is set to UTF-8, the  content Transfer encoding 
to automatic).

It does not seem to matter, which editor is given in the options. I have
tried the following:

   "kwrite %s"
   "konsole -e vi %s"
   "konsole -e ispell %s"   
   ""  (blank - emacs is called)

The programmes called show the already altered message. 




-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.5
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages sylpheed depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.10.1-2      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                      2.3.2.ds1-22  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcompfaceg1              1989.11.11-24 Compress/decompress images for mai
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.6.5-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0              1.1-4         library for common error values an
ii  libgpgme11                 1.0.2-1       GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.6.8-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libldap2                   2.1.30-11     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.8.2-1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpisock8                 0.11.8-10     Library for communicating with a P
ii  libssl0.9.7                0.9.7e-3      SSL shared libraries
ii  sylpheed-i18n              2.0.0-1       Locale data for Sylpheed (i18n sup

Versions of packages sylpheed recommends:
ii  aspell-en                6.0-0-3         English dictionary for GNU Aspell
pn  metamail                 <none>          (no description available)
ii  sylpheed-claws-scripts   1.0.4-1         Helper scripts for Sylpheed and Sy
ii  xfonts-100dpi            4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 100 dpi fonts for X
ii  xfonts-75dpi             4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 75 dpi fonts for X

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