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Bug 612190 - Copying email addresses with utf8 chars is broken for the To: and Cc: edit boxes
Copying email addresses with utf8 chars is broken for the To: and Cc: edit boxes
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.30.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[composer]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-03-08 13:33 UTC by Alkis Georgopoulos
Modified: 2018-11-29 05:53 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.29/2.30


Description Alkis Georgopoulos 2010-03-08 13:33:34 UTC 
I've been seeing this for the last 3 years, so it's a long standing bug. Currently I'm reporting with evolution 2.28.3-0ubuntu3 / Ubuntu Lucid alpha 3.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Copy this email address:
Άλκης Γεωργόπουλος <alkisg@somewhere.com>

2) Start writing a new mail and paste it to the "To:" line.

3) Copy the email address from the "To:" line and paste it to the email body.
You should be seeing:
=?UTF-8?Q?=CE=86=CE=BB=CE=BA=CE=B7=CF=82_?=
 =?UTF-8?Q?=CE=93=CE=B5=CF=89=CF=81=CE=B3=CF=8C=CF=80=CE=BF=CF=85=CE=BB?=
 =?UTF-8?Q?=CE=BF=CF=82?=
  <alkisg@somewhere.com>

which obviously isn't what we want.

So *copying* from the "To:" or "Cc:" fields is broken in evolution for non-ascii email addresses.

--
This has been reported to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/533129, and I'm forwarding it upstream as requested.
Comment 1 logari81 2010-03-08 14:27:18 UTC 
I could reproduce this bug by just pasting

α <a>

into the "To:" field

Trying then to copy it again from the "To:" field and paste it into the mail body resulted to:

=?UTF-8?Q?=CE=B1?= <a>
Comment 2 Akhil Laddha 2010-03-09 04:05:34 UTC 
looks similar to bug 442934
Comment 3 Alkis Georgopoulos 2010-03-09 05:00:44 UTC 
I think that bug 442934 is about decoding headers,
while this one is about the To: box encoding its contents before putting them to the clipboard. It shouldn't use any kind of encoding for the clipboard, imho.

So I think they're not related at all.
Comment 4 Akhil Laddha 2010-10-01 06:15:08 UTC 
may be fixed with bug 609042.

Can you please check again whether this issue still happens in Evolution 2.32.0 and update this report by adding a comment and changing the "Version"
field? Thanks a lot.
Comment 5 Alkis Georgopoulos 2010-10-01 13:03:41 UTC 
Is there a live distro available with that Evolution version?
I tried downloading Ubuntu Maverick but it only has evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu5. The bug is still valid there.
Comment 6 Akhil Laddha 2010-10-04 03:47:15 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Is there a live distro available with that Evolution version?
> I tried downloading Ubuntu Maverick but it only has evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu5.
> The bug is still valid there.

bug 609042 mentioned in comment#4 was fixed in 2.30.0 so if you still see bug in evolution 2.30.3 then your problem is not yet fixed.
Comment 7 André Klapper 2018-11-29 05:53:01 UTC 
Assuming this is obsolete nowadays. If not, then please reopen if you can still reproduce in 3.30 or later.