Re: report on [bad] status of i18n of gnome apps - somebody should explicitly care about it

[Pablo Saratxaga <pablo mandrakesoft com>]

Kaixo!

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:57:43AM +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:

>  As for Evo: storing everything in utf8 is a good thing, but it's not
> sufficient for proper i18n. Evo has to set mail headers correctly, encode text
> of the body and subject properly (as per RFCs), and be able to recode on the
> fly messages that were received by it (since text of messages can be in any
> encoding). So, switch to gtk-2.0 won't help to solve this problem at all. With
> current evo, it's useless for anything but sending mail to yourself for
> non-latin1 users :(

Just for info, mutt is able to correctly handle all that encodings stuff;
maybe some code can be shared.

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Pablo Saratxaga

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