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Bug 224492 - Japanese text does not display in mail subject / body
Japanese text does not display in mail subject / body
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221208
Product: GtkHtml
Classification: Other
Component: Rendering
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: 1.2.x
Assigned To: gtkhtml-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 228287 231985 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-05-10 08:56 UTC by Pen Ado
Modified: 2002-10-23 16:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Pen Ado 2002-05-10 08:56:22 UTC 
Description of Problem:

Japanese will not display correctly in mail subject/body.

I have had mail sent to me in UTF8, SJIS, ISO2022-JP. It either comes
across as boxes, hex codes, or gibberish. Changing the HTML viewer's
default fonts does not work also. Changing the character encoding when
displaying mail does not resolve it either.
Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2002-05-10 17:21:58 UTC 
Here's a message from one user explaining to another user how to setup
Evolution to do japanese:

I sent skye a message about this off-list. Perhaps I should have
replied
to all.

I use Evolution to read and write Japanese email all the time. It
works
very well. Here's all I do to get it working:

LANG=ja_JP.ujis
LC_ALL=ja_JP.ujis
LINGUAS="ja_JP.ujis"
LESSCHARSET=japanese

export LANG LC_ALL LINGUAS LESSCHARSET

kinput2 -canna&
evolution
Comment 2 Pen Ado 2002-06-12 07:44:52 UTC 
Some japanese characters are visible, but most are jibberish.
I have tried every build of Evolution, and still no luck.
Also, it does not allow you to enter japanese text.

Mozilla mail works fine on my system (reading/writing japanese).
Comment 3 Jeffrey Stedfast 2002-06-12 17:37:42 UTC 
I'm thinking this is a font issue and not an evolution issue, but I'll
reassign to the gtkhtml guys to see what they say.
Comment 4 Larry Ewing 2002-08-09 19:22:35 UTC 
Yeah this is almost certainly still a font issue.  Unfortunately until
we move to gtk2 there isn't a lot we can do to make the font situation
better for japanese users.
Comment 5 Larry Ewing 2002-08-09 21:09:52 UTC 
*** bug 228287 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Larry Ewing 2002-09-10 06:20:16 UTC 
How were you trying to enter rhe japanese text?  Empty boxes instead
of the proper glyph typically means the glyph could not be found in
the font gtkhtml is using.
Comment 7 Larry Ewing 2002-10-15 02:37:01 UTC 
*** bug 231985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Larry Ewing 2002-10-23 16:40:30 UTC 
The broken entry problem should be fixed.  Display problem still active.  

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221208 ***