GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 252624
Mail header isn't encoded correctly (when I changed OS default charset)
Last modified: 2004-01-06 13:17:40 UTC
Description of Problem: Mail header isn't encoded by charset USER choised. (but when OS default charset changed from UTF-8 to eucJP) (in body, messages are encoded correctly by charset USER choised.) when I send a message in japanese, outlook express 6 can't understand correctly. (I've already read bug 242549, 24026, 44991 and so on.) OS version is Fedora Core 1 linux (evolution version is 1.4.5. this is provided as a RPM binary file by Fedora). Default charset is ja_JP.eucJP. (I changed it from ja_JP.UTF-8 to ja_JP.eucJP because of some application's problem.) Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. run an evolution from application menu 2. compose a new message(I wrote a message in Japanese. [subject and body]) 3. send a message (the body and header charset are iso-2022-jp). and then, when some user recieve a message by using OE6. that software can't understand UTF-8. Actual Results: header isn't encoded in the charset USER selected. Expected Results: Evolution mailer sends to message in a charset USER selected. (Despite OS default charset, evolution can send a mail in a charset USER selected.) How often does this happen? always(but when I changed OS charset from UTF-8 to eucJP) Additional Information: When I run the evolution from terminal like this, $ LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 evolution this problem doesn't happen. (of course, now I wrote alias evolution=... in .bashrc.) but I would like to do it.
the OS charset and the user specified charset (for mailer and/or composer) are not meant to affect header encoding. they are ONLY meant to specify the body charset. that said: 1. Outlook is broken if it can't handle UTF-8... this is 2004 afterall, not 1980. 2. the only way this'll get "fixed" is via bug#224026 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 224026 ***