Evolution and ISO-8859-1 Fonts (umlaute, German, Swiss German)

Ilja Kogan news at kogan-family.de
Tue Mar 23 21:02:17 UTC 2004


Markku Kolkka wrote:

>Roger Grosswiler kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 23. 
>maaliskuuta 2004 21:49):
>  
>
>>struggeling with  my favourite, i remarked just that people
>>receiving email from me get no "umlaute" like ö ä ü (oe ae and
>>ue, in german). You see in this e-mail the result: here you
>>should now see: (ä)ae (ö)oe (ü)ue.
>>    
>>
>
>I can see them OK when viewing your message in KMail. Looking at 
>the raw message source I see a potential problem: The 
>content-type header of your message doesn't specify the 
>character set:
>
>From: Roger Grosswiler <roger at gwch.net>
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=
>Message-Id: <1080071348.2909.14.camel at lneo>
>
>Additionally, the umlauted characters in the message are coded as 
>UTF-8 Unicode, not ISO-8859-1.
>
>  
>
The interesting thing is, that I can't see the umlaute in the original 
post, but I can see them in the quotation of Markku's post. I think it's 
very strange and may be connected with your evolution.





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