Public bug reported: 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?some...@somewhere=2edk?=" <some...@somewhere.dk> From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?some...@somewhere=2edk?=" <some...@somewhere.dk> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:47:48 +0200 To: "=?iso-8859-1?q?mymailaddr...@mail=2ecom?=" <mymailaddr...@mail.com> 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 ** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid -- Evolution does not use the character encoding that is hinted at in the subject line https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/596849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
