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Subject:    [sylpheed:22226] Sylpheed 0.9.8cvs1:  inconsistency in handling cyrillic encoding in
From:       Pasha Murat 630-854-9188 <murat () fnal ! gov>(cell)
Date:       2004-01-19 2:56:54
Message-ID: 20040118205654.3b4a9bc7.murat () fnal ! gov
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Dear Sylpheed developers,

there seems to be an inconsistency in a way  Sylpheed handles
cyrillic encodings and, in particular, koi8-r. I saw several
reports on the subject in the archives but no real resolution.
I spent some time investigating the issue, here is the detailed
record illustrating the problem:

- following is the source view of the email I received recently -
  keep focus on the "Subject:" line:
---------------------------------------------------------
From: =?koi8-r?B?7sHUwczY0Q==?= <ignatova62@mtu-net.ru>
Subject: =?koi8-r?B?0M/Q2dTLwQ==?To: Murat <murat@fnal.gov>
Message-id: <000a01c3ddbd$fae672f0$5581763e@natali>
MIME-version: 1.0
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="Boundary_(ID_JB0ljoP4KlLntrk8E4aOaA)"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-priority: Normal

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--Boundary_(ID_JB0ljoP4KlLntrk8E4aOaA)
Content-type: text/plain;	charset="koi8-r"
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable

ðÁÛÁ?
...snip
------------------------------------------------------------

- when I replied to this email without typing in anything in the
  body but with To: to myself and looked at the source of the reply
  (Sylpheed output encoding set to koi8-r), the subject line looked
  quite different and obviously unreadable:
----------------------------------------------------
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:23:44 -0600
From: Pasha Murat <murat@fnal.gov>
Subject: Re: =?KOI8-R?Q?_______?In-reply-to: <000a01c3ddbd$fae672f0$5581763e@natali>
To: murat@fnal.gov
Message-id: <20040118202344.3906d12a.murat@fnal.gov>
Organization: CDF/Fermilab
MIME-version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8cvs1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Content-type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R
Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE
References: <000a01c3ddbd$fae672f0$5581763e@natali>

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 15:24:10 +0300
îÁÔÁÌØÑ <ignatova62@mtu-net.ru> wrote:

> ðÁÛÁ?
> 
-------------------------------------------------
When I was sending the reply I could read the subject line
corectly spelled in cyrillic letters, this points to that wrong
conversion took place at a point when the reply has been sent.

Is this something fundamental related to "deep mutual
misunderstanding" between the Sylpheed and the backends of KDE 3.1
which I'm running under RH Linux 9.0 or something which is possible
to fix on Sylpheed's side?

2 more [may be relevant] bits of information:
------------------
murat@murat01:/cdf/data12/murat/tgeant>env | grep -i lang
NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.US7ASCII
-------------------
murat@murat01:/cdf/data12/murat/tgeant>cat ~/.sylpheed/sylpheedrc | grep font
widget_font=-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-100-*-*-p-*-koi8-r
message_font=-cronyx-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-m-*-koi8-r
normal_font­obe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--10-100-*-*-p-*-koi8-r
bold_font=-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-60-koi8-r
small_font=-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-100-*-*-p-*-koi8-r
------------------

let me know if you need more information,

				many thanks, Pasha

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