[Evolution] Character encoding in 1.4.x

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

I have no idea, perhaps their mailers are broken :-)

You should probably use iso-8859-1 rather than UTF-8 as a number of
mailers out there are still back in the stone age and don't yet support
UTF-8, sadly.

Jeff

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:45, Mike Gifford wrote:
> Hello Jeff,
> 
> Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
> 
> It was set to Western European (ISO-8859-1) previously.  I've since
> changed it to UTF-8.  
> 
> If both should work fine for sending English characters, why have I
> gotten 3 emails in the last 2 weeks saying that folks can't read my
> emails (because of problems with the character set).
> 
> I've only heard back from folks I communicate with on a fairly regular
> basis.  I haven't been able to get a look at the headers from the emails
> yet..  It might just be a problem with some folks on some email clients
> (probably OutLook), but I've never had this problem before...
> 
> Could the character set be corrupted somewhere else?  Perhaps by my
> ISP's SMTP server?
> 
> I'm grasping at straws here..
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:35, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > Evolution uses your systems charset by default (which is UTF-8 on Red
> > Hat 8 and 9, for example). If you are just sending English, you can use
> > ISO-8859-1.
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 15:14, Mike Gifford wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I've received notices from a couple people know that my messages aren't
> > > readable.  One person thought it was greek another croatian.
> > > 
> > > Most recently it was this message that a client reported:
> > > 
> > > > This message uses a character set that is not supported by the
> > > > Internet Service.  To view the original message content,  open the
> > > > attached message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the
> > > > attachment to disk, and then open it using a viewer that can display
> > > > the original character set. 
> > > 
> > > I only use text messages, so I found this very confusing.  My default
> > > character set was set to Western European (which I figured would be fine
> > > for English).  What should it be for English?  I've switched it to UTF-8
> > > as that seems to be the default.
> > > 
> > > I'm using Evolution 1.4.4
> > > 
> > > I'm starting to get worried that a whole wack of emails that I've sent
> > > might be undecipherable by the folks on the other end.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Mike
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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