GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 209441
Links with 8-bit characters don't work
Last modified: 2017-02-09 13:34:06 UTC
Links with 8-bit characters don't work in Evolution, only the part before the 8-bit character is shown as a link. Please see the attached screen shot.
Created attachment 40256 [details] Screenshot with 8-bit mail links
But none of those are valid domain names, so none of them are valid links... ?
> But none of those are valid domain names, so none of them are > valid links... ? Oh yes they are. .nu has allowed international characters in domain names for more than a year now, and now it is possible for .com, .net and .org too, plus probably several other toplevel domains. Take a look for example at http://www.worldnames.net/. It certainly is allowed and valid nowadays, it's just that older name server deamons don't allow them yet or treat them correctly, which of course is broken. Ditto for mailers that cannot parse them correctly as URLs.
Huh. Well, anyway, just because they exist doesn't mean they're valid. :-/ But, at least they're using unicode, so supporting them won't make me feel *too* dirty.
Closer than future; 1.4 tentatively so we don't lose it.
Added myself to Cc, and verified that no-one has fixed this for 1.1.0.99. ;)
still valid in evolution1.5-2.0.0.0.200409211947-0.snap.ximian.8.1. setting target to 2.1.
attach an example message, a screenshot is useless
Created attachment 44639 [details] email with letter ä (aring) breaks url link
Created attachment 44640 [details] 8bit email with link that breaks
I am able to replicate the issue even with Evolution 2.2.1. Reopening the issue.
still valid in 2.4.0, retargetting from 2.3 to 2.5
*** Bug 270892 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
probably still an issue. The regexps in gtkhtml are using [a-zA-Z] and it certainly wont match international chars. Does regcomp supports character classes ? like [[:alpha:]] and such ?
Bumping version to a stable release.
*** Bug 567612 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 636048 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 557775 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Would be good to retest in 3.6 with evolution[webkit] rendering.
Still happens in Evolution 3.12.8 with Webkit rendering.
GtkHtml is not under active development anymore. Evolution (its main consumer) switched to a WebKit backend a while ago. It is currently unlikely that there will be any further GtkHtml development. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping (bug 778387) to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.