GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 249663
mail sent out in UTF encoding even when ISO8859-2 is explicitely specified
Last modified: 2003-10-15 18:30:13 UTC
Description of Problem: mail sent out in UTF encoding even when ISO8859-2 is explicitely specified Steps to reproduce the problem: 0. set the default encoding to ISO8859-2 1. write a letter with characters not included in the ISO8859-2 charset (e.g. letter ?) 2. click on ISO8859-2 encoding in the edit menu, to ensure that the encoding of the mail sent out would be this 3. press the send button Actual Results: Mail is sent out in UTF encoding! :(( (lots of people reporting I sent an unreadable mail. When I tried again resending it, double-checking the encoding in the edit menu - all of them received the same again, blaming me) Expected Results: Mail sent out in the encoding I specify. If there are characters that don't fit in that coding, Evolution should ask what to do! Possible solutions: - UTF offered as a charset that can describe all the characters I used. - offering substitution of characters to degenerate versions (e.g. ? -> ü, or ? -> u, mabe ? -> u~ substitutions) Mozilla can do something like this. How often does this happen? Always. Additional Information:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249548 ***