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Evolution can't handle Latin characters when system encoding is set to UTF-8

Bug #19760 reported by Celso Pinto
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evolution
Fix Released
Medium
evolution (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Ubuntu ubuntu-6.06

Bug Description

My Ubuntu is configured with UTF-8 locales and when reading e-mails on Evolution
that were sent with a iso8859-1 encoding and contain accentuated characters,
those characters aren't displayed.

If I change encoding, in the menu, to iso8859-1 the email message displays
alright but I feel I shouldn't have to manually select the encoding, especially
because that email has the header: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1;

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. What version of the package do you use? Can you forward or
attach a bogus mail to bugzilla?

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Celso Pinto (cpinto) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=3252)
Test case

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Celso Pinto (cpinto) wrote :

Evolution 2.3.7-0ubuntu2. If you open this email on a UTF-8 configured system
with Evolution the body will be empty. If you change it to iso8859-1 it'll show
the latin characters.

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Celso Pinto (cpinto) wrote :

This problem still occurs. I'm from Portugal and most of the time I receive emails encoded in latin1 so I have to keep switching encodings and it's starting to become really annoying. Do you have any indication of a fix for the problem?

Evolution version is 2.6.0-0ubuntu4

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

I've forwarded your issue with the example upstream, I'll let you know if they have any comment on it: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339052

Changed in evolution:
assignee: seb128 → desktop-bugs
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Upstream has fixed the issue and your example mail works fine with the patch, I'll backport it to the dapper package

Changed in evolution:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Celso Pinto (cpinto) wrote :

Oh man, you *absolutely* rock Sebastien. Thanks for standing out in the defense of a fix!

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

This upload fixes the issue:

 evolution (2.6.1-0ubuntu2) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/06_fix_inline_pgp_breaking_charset.patch:
     - patch from upstream, fix the inline pgp code breaking the charset
       parameter (Ubuntu: #339052)

Changed in evolution:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

No problem, always nice to get a bug fixed!

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