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

Tue Mar 23 22:32:55 UTC 2004

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 21:49, Roger Grosswiler wrote:

> struggeling with  my favourite, i remarked just that people receiving
> email from me get no "umlaute" like Ã¶ Ã¤ Ã¼ (oe ae and ue, in german). You
> see in this e-mail the result: here you should now see: (Ã¤)ae (Ã¶)oe
> (Ã¼)ue.

> I've tried already many things. my settings are:
> -Tools/Settings/e-mail-settings: same fonts as other applications
> -View/coding: default (tried here also ISO-8859-1, didn't help)

Evolution shipped with Fedora 1 has indeed a nasty bug, if you haven't
set any encoding, it sends out empty content-type: headers.

Set Tool->Settings->Email prefs.->Default character encoding to some
value.
ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15 or UTF-8 are fine.