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Bug 250087 - Warn when mail would be sent in UTF-8
Warn when mail would be sent in UTF-8
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
pre-1.5 (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[interop] evolution[wontfix?]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-10-24 09:26 UTC by Paweł Sakowski
Modified: 2013-07-24 19:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Paweł Sakowski 2003-10-24 09:26:19 UTC 
I would like an option to warn the user if the mail they send can't be
encoded in any of the ISO 8859 flavors, and would need to be encoded in UTF-8.

The reason is that many mailers don't support UTF-8, so often it's better
to rewrite the contents, dropping a couple of non-ASCII letters (e.g.
cutting some quotations), and make the resulting mail legible for the
recipient.
Comment 1 Emmanuel Pacaud 2005-01-19 16:54:48 UTC 
Evolution really should respect user set encoding, and provide a
warning when it can't convert its utf-8 buffer.

Current behaviour is annoying when using evolution in a mixed
environment, where a lot of users don't use an utf-8 capable mailer.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2005-07-31 14:39:44 UTC 
related to bug 224026
Comment 3 André Klapper 2012-01-30 13:40:59 UTC 
Proposing WONTFIX as bug 224026 has been solved and as time has changed.
People should really run mailers that support UTF-8 nowadays.