GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 559282
Subject encoding is incorrectly set to UTF-8 even when iso-2022-jp is specified
Last modified: 2009-08-19 12:14:36 UTC
Please describe the problem: When posting messages to Japanese mailing list, it's important to use iso-2022-jp encoding since not all mailers support UTF-8 encoding. Evolution allows users to manually specify the desired encoding via Edit - Character Encoding in the composer window, but choosing iso-2022-jp here only encodes the text body in iso-2022-jp while the subject line remains UTF-8 encoded. I would expect the subject line to be encoded in the same encoding as the text body, which in this case is iso-2022-jp. Steps to reproduce: 1. File - New - Mail Message to launch a composer window. 2. Go to Edit - Character Encoding and select iso-2022-jp 3. Write mail and send it out. You can copy and paste the following for testing (the text between >- and <-) Subject: ->日本語のテスト<- Text body: >-テストメールです。<- Actual results: the Subject line is UTF-8 encoded. You can see when you check the source of your email. Here is what I get: Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=E6=97=A5=E6=9C=AC=E8=AA=9E=E3=81=AE=E3=83=86=E3=82=B9?= =?UTF-8?Q?=E3=83=88?= Expected results: I would expect the subject line to be iso-2022-jp encoded. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: This bug IMO is very important for Japanese-language users. UTF-8 encoded emails are frowned upon in Japanese language mailing lists in general. While some lists are receptive of UTF-8 encoded emails, others are very vocal about discriminating against them.
a typo in the summary.
there's also a similar report on Ubuntu here: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/evolution/+bug/314953
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 442934 ***