GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 346918
hex boxes in welcome message
Last modified: 2014-12-02 01:06:46 UTC
May just be due to the default font setup in fedora, but it might be good to rewrite the message to ensure that it works with most font setups.
Created attachment 68575 [details] screenshot
hmmm... there isn't any white space after the <li>, there isn't any <font face> in that message, and of course their are no CSS settings. any idea *what* to rewrite in order to fix this?
Well, confirming I guess. At least, I do see very similar strange chars as in the screenshot. However, the mail itself ($prefix/default/C/mail/local/Inbox) does *not* have any additional chars in the list. No clue, where this may come from. Likely either a font issue or a GtkHTML rendering/parsing issue. Moving to GtkHTML for now. Any additional info, observations and hints greatly appreciated.
Just had a look at the raw files that are displayed in the mail pane by GtkHTML: $ EVOLUTION_MAIL_LOG_HTML=1 evolution-2.6 The resulting saved raw data stream files are just fine, and render correctly in Firefox without the additional junk. Still, either a GtkHTML Rendering or a font related issue...
Tried different fonts. Not related to the font used, though still possibly font related.
Since version 3.6, Evolution uses WebKit instead of GtkHtml for displaying messages. (And for completeness, Evolution 3.14 is planned to use WebKit also for composing and editing messages so GtkHtml will not receive any fixes anymore.) Hence I am closing this GtkHtml rendering bug report. We are sorry that your request was not handled in time when it was reported but unfortunately manpower is very limited (and does not allow testing every single reported issue separately again either). Please feel free to reopen this report (and move it to the "Evolution" product and the "Mail" component) if the problem described in this bug report still happens in a recent supported Evolution version which uses WebKit (the current stable Evolution version is 3.12).