Weird Character Mapping on Evolution on F11 Preview

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 07:50 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> All:
> 
> Characters in certain messages I receive (example is subscription mail
> from Moody's Bible Institute) have special characters that are not
> displaying correctly.
> 
> Instead of showing the character (usually commas, apostrophes, and
> single / double quotes), it shows a small square box with what appears
> to be a hex code inside of it. I'm assuming that this is Evolution's way
> of saying, "I give up - since I don't know how to display this
> character, I'm going to display the hex code for this character
> instead."
> 
> The strange part is not not every message does this. I get others with
> things like copyright symbols and other special characters just fine.
> 
> I've tried changing the character mapping in Evolution to various
> alternatives - the default is to use UTF-8. No luck.
> 
> Anyone else seeing this or have a way to fix?

If this happens only on messages from one specific source, it's almost
certainly an encoding problem at the sender's end.

It's also unlikely to be specific to Evo. Try saving the message to a
file and examining it with something else, such as 'less' or 'cat'. Try
looking at the source (Ctrl-U in Evo) and see what the strange
characters are. Try reading the same message with a different client,
e.g. Thunderbird.

If you find it *is* specific to Evo, then post on the Evo list
(evolution-list at gnome.org) and/or report a bug at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org.

poc