Bug 295044 - evo. doesn't understand non-ASCII chars. in headers
Summary: evo. doesn't understand non-ASCII chars. in headers
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Evolution (show other bugs)
Version: Alpha 0
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Forgotten User eDPGYP6_cn
QA Contact: Akhil Laddha
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Keywords: mailer
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Reported: 2007-07-27 08:18 UTC by Michael Meeks
Modified: 2008-05-13 09:05 UTC (History)
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mails - fetched via IMAP from Groupwise (source novell buzilla) (3.80 KB, text/plain)
2007-07-27 08:19 UTC, Michael Meeks 		Details
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Description Michael Meeks 2007-07-27 08:18:21 UTC 
So - bugzilla just sent me mail for this bug:
#283378#

Subject: 	[Bug 283378] OpenOffice can'=?UTF-8?Q?t=20access=20to=20directori?= =?UTF-8?Q?es=20with=20=C3=A1?=,=?UTF-8?Q?=20=C3=A9?=, =?UTF-8?Q?=20=C3=BA=20?=...

Unfortunately this -looks- like Junk - lots of junk is now in odd charsets - it's also extremely difficult to read. Can we not unencode this ? it is UTF-8 after all.

I attach a couple of sample mails.
Comment 1 Michael Meeks 2007-07-27 08:19:58 UTC 
Created attachment 153465 [details]
mails - fetched via IMAP from Groupwise (source novell buzilla)
Comment 2 Forgotten User eDPGYP6_cn 2007-07-27 08:58:57 UTC 
RFC 822 says the contents of the subject header should be considered unformatted plain ASCII. Evo adheres to this RFC.

However, with newer MIME standards (RFC 2047) it is possible to include non-ASCII text in subject header also by either Q-encoding (used in the attached mail) or base64 encoding.

Shouldn't take a super-human effort to implement, though.
Comment 3 Suman Manjunath 2008-02-01 10:48:50 UTC 
Re-targetting to opensuse-11.0
Comment 4 Forgotten User eDPGYP6_cn 2008-05-13 09:00:34 UTC 
I remember some fixes on these lines. I will try with 11.0 and get back.
Comment 5 Forgotten User eDPGYP6_cn 2008-05-13 09:05:35 UTC 
Yes. this is fixed. Tested with 11.0 and upstream trunk. Evolution displays the mail attached in comment #1 just fine.