Bug#1058926: evolution: best charset for korean

[황병희]

On Mon, 2023-12-18 at 23:09 +, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > Nowdays most Koreans prefer UTF-8 over EUC-KR in Email:
> ...
> > -   { "EUC-KR", E_CHARSET_KOREAN, NULL },
> > +   { "UTF-8", E_CHARSET_KOREAN, NULL },
> 
> > This is a more complicated issue than i might think.
> > I will try again later.
> 
> If possible, I think this sort of change is better
> discussed with the upstream maintainers of Evolution via
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues, rather than with
> its Debian maintainers.
> 

Simon, thank you for your kind guidance.


Sincerely, Byung-Hee from South Korea
 
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Bug#1058926: evolution: best charset for korean

[Simon McVittie]

> Nowdays most Koreans prefer UTF-8 over EUC-KR in Email:
...
> -   { "EUC-KR", E_CHARSET_KOREAN, NULL },
> +   { "UTF-8", E_CHARSET_KOREAN, NULL },

> This is a more complicated issue than i might think.
> I will try again later.

If possible, I think this sort of change is better
discussed with the upstream maintainers of Evolution via
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues, rather than with
its Debian maintainers.

Thanks,
smcv

Bug#1058926: evolution: best charset for korean

[Byung-Hee HWANG]

Package: evolution
Version: 3.50.2-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

Nowdays most Koreans prefer UTF-8 over EUC-KR in Email:

diff --git a/src/e-util/e-charset.c b/src/e-util/e-charset.c
index 2cc7188059..99df3d52ae 100644
--- a/src/e-util/e-charset.c
+++ b/src/e-util/e-charset.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static ECharset charsets[] = {
{ "ISO-2022-JP", E_CHARSET_JAPANESE, NULL },
{ "EUC-JP", E_CHARSET_JAPANESE, NULL },
{ "Shift_JIS", E_CHARSET_JAPANESE, NULL },
-   { "EUC-KR", E_CHARSET_KOREAN, NULL },
+   { "UTF-8", E_CHARSET_KOREAN, NULL },
{ "TIS-620", E_CHARSET_THAI, NULL },
{ "ISO-8859-9", E_CHARSET_TURKISH, NULL },
{ "UTF-8", E_CHARSET_UNICODE, NULL },


Sincerely, Byung-Hee from South Korea

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-12-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=ko_KR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ko_KR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]  1.14.10-3
ii  evolution-common3.50.2-1
ii  evolution-data-server   3.50.2-1
ii  libc6   2.37-13
ii  libcamel-1.2-64 3.50.2-1
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-01.8.4-4+b1
ii  libecal-2.0-2   3.50.2-1
ii  libedataserver-1.2-27   3.50.2-1
ii  libevolution3.50.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-02.78.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0  3.24.38-6
ii  libical33.0.17-1
ii  libnotify4  0.8.3-1
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 2.42.4-1
ii  libxml2 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3+b1
ii  psmisc  23.6-1

Versions of packages evolution recommends:
ii  evolution-plugin-bogofilter  3.50.2-1
ii  evolution-plugin-pstimport   3.50.2-1
ii  evolution-plugins3.50.2-1
ii  yelp 42.2-1

Versions of packages evolution suggests:
pn  evolution-ews   
pn  evolution-plugins-experimental  
ii  gnupg   2.2.40-1.1
ii  network-manager 1.44.2-6

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