[Evolution] Non-unicode attachment names are unreadible

["Janberk Sahin" <janberks gmail com>]

Hi Pete!

Thanks for your interest.

In fact I'm not sure that calling characters in Turkish language as non-unicode is correct. Please forgive any wrong information I gave.

I've set any option (in fact there are 2, one in mail prefs., other in composer prefs.) in Edit->Preferences dialog as "ISO-8859-9 Turkish". If I set view -> character
encoding to "ISO-8859-9 Turkish" also, then message body becomes unreadible. So I leave it set as Default.

If the problem were with the mails I receive, then it wouldn't be that much bother, but it's with the mails I send to other people, so it would be awkward to ask them to rename the attachments as they receive :/.

So is Evolution useless in this?

Thanks,
Janberk

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk> wrote:

>
> While sending mails with attachments, Evolution makes the names of the
> attachments unreadible if they have non-unicode characters, such as Ã,
> Ã, Ä, Å, Ä... While sending and recieving the message body is OK and
> when a non-unicode named attachment is received, again no problem.
>

If they are non-unicode, then there will be no hints as to what
character set the file names are actually in - and I suspect (although I
don't know and haven't looked) that the MIME standard will say that the
filenames have to be in 7-bit ascii.

What would you *want* Evo to do?  It can't really guess what charset the
names are (well it could, it's almost certainly a windows charset :-)) -
I suppose it could use the same charset as the body of the attachment,
but if it is non-readable content (like a document or image) then there
is no charset.

I suppose you could try altering the Evo charset (view -> character
encoding), but I doubt if it will change the rendering of the attachment
file names.

What happens when you save or view the file?  Unless you rename it, then
I suspect as well that it will be unusable on your Ubuntu system.

P.

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KoordinatÃr
Kapasitif DanÄÅmanlÄk Enerji BiliÅim ve ÄnÅ. San. Tic. Ltd. Åti.

Refik Saydam Cad. Åimal Sok. Åimal Han No: 14 Kat: 9 D: 91
BeyoÄlu / Ästanbul
Tel / Faks: 0 (212) 293 42 40
info kapasitif com
www.kapasitif.com