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Bug 252624 - Mail header isn't encoded correctly (when I changed OS default charset)
Mail header isn't encoded correctly (when I changed OS default charset)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 224026
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
pre-1.5 (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-01-06 09:11 UTC by koyama
Modified: 2004-01-06 13:17 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description koyama 2004-01-06 09:11:40 UTC
Description of Problem:
Mail header isn't encoded by charset USER choised.
 (but when OS default charset changed from UTF-8 to eucJP)
 (in body, messages are encoded correctly by charset USER choised.)

when I send a message in japanese, outlook express 6 can't understand 
correctly.
(I've already read bug 242549, 24026, 44991 and so on.)

OS version is Fedora Core 1 linux (evolution version is 1.4.5. this is 
provided as a RPM binary file by Fedora).

Default charset is ja_JP.eucJP.
(I changed it from ja_JP.UTF-8 to ja_JP.eucJP because of some application's 
problem.)



Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. run an evolution from application menu 
2. compose a new message(I wrote a message in Japanese. [subject and body])
3. send a message (the body and header charset are iso-2022-jp).
and then, when some user recieve a message by using OE6. that software 
can't understand UTF-8.


Actual Results:
header isn't encoded in the charset USER selected.


Expected Results:
Evolution mailer sends to message in a charset USER selected.
(Despite OS default charset, evolution can send a mail in a charset USER 
selected.) 


How often does this happen? 
always(but when I changed OS charset from UTF-8 to eucJP)


Additional Information:
When I run the evolution from terminal like this,
 $ LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 evolution
this problem doesn't happen.
(of course, now I wrote alias evolution=... in .bashrc.)
but I would like to do it.
Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2004-01-06 13:17:40 UTC
the OS charset and the user specified charset (for mailer and/or
composer) are not meant to affect header encoding. they are ONLY meant
to specify the body charset.

that said:

1. Outlook is broken if it can't handle UTF-8... this is 2004
afterall, not 1980.

2. the only way this'll get "fixed" is via bug#224026

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 224026 ***