Hi there, On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Amelia, > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Amelia A Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dear Ricardo, >> >> On 2008-06-11 03:59:58 -0400 "Ricardo Mones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Amelia A Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> The bug persists as of Claws Mail 3.1.0-1. >>>> >>>> My locale is UTF-8. I have an example from a Russian correspondent; the >>>> body of the message is Windows-1251, as is the subject. I have no idea >>>> what Claws thinks it's using to display the garbage in the subject, but >>>> it can't be UTF-8, since the string is illegal in UTF-8. So, at a guess, >>>> it's falling back (in this version) not to the locale, but to some >>>> developer-designated 8-bit encoding, disregarding the information in the >>>> MIME Content-Type header that might provide a useful hint. >>>> >>>> It's possible that the version that I have has been obsoleted. >>> >>> Indeed, current versión is 3.4.0, which is the one I was pretending >>> you to test against, sorry for not being specific. >>> Could you upgrade claws-mail package and see if it works better? >> >> Oh, *sigh*. Sorry, the failure to cc can be blamed on my switching between >> MUAs; this one has a single reply button and a dialog that asks me "reply to >> everyone?" and I've grown accustomed, so don't think to look for the "all" >> button instead. > > :-) > >> I'm afraid that I'm in something of a bind, so if you have reason to believe >> that this is fixed as of 3.4, I'll accept that. The problem is called >> hughes.net, bloodsuckers of the rural landscape, and their foul access >> policy that means that once I've gotten behind on updates, I daren't try to >> catch up. >> >> Err. Basically, I'm going to have to burn a DVD at work, over a hot >> connection, before I can risk trying an update at home, because otherwise my >> connection will be throttled to tens of bytes per second in retaliation. I >> don't know when I can do it, so it's best if you just regard me as >> complaisant with whatever evaluation you've arrived at. >> >> If you wish, I can forward (as attachment) an email that displayed the >> behavior, so that you can (perhaps) extract it and examine it. But you may >> not feel that it's worth the effort. > > Well, there's no hurry at all, I can wait for you to upgrade and test > first. If problem is still present then I agree further examination of > the message is the way to go as you point out. > > As the next upstream release (3.5.0) is going to happen soon (before > the end of the month) you may prefer to wait some days before burning > that DVD and test with the very last one instead of current 3.4.0 > (which I would prefer too :-).
Claws Mail 3.5.0 is on the archive since some time ago. Would you mind testing a bit with it to see if this bug is handled better or not? Thanks in advance, -- Ricardo Mones http://people.debian.org/~mones «You'll wish that you had done some of the hard things when they were easier to do.»
