Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: evolution
I'm posting this bug here since I did try with upstream bugzilla but
nobody seems to care.
I wrote an email with the following subject: "Proyecto USAID Paraguay -
Análisis de situación". When the email is read in Microsoft Outlook, the
subject shows up as "Proyecto USAID Paraguay - Análisis desituación"
(there is a missing space before "situación").
Looking at the source code of the email I found that just after the word
"de", there is a line break which might cause this problem. Here is the
exact text:
Subject: Proyecto USAID Paraguay - =?ISO-8859-1?Q?An=E1lisis?= de
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?situaci=F3n?=
The email subject shows up perfectly if you use Evolution or Gmail, but
not under Microsoft Outlook.
Thunderbird generates an email with the following subject:
Subject: Proyecto USAID Paraguay - =?ISO-8859-1?Q?An=E1lisis_de_situa?=
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?ci=F3n?=
>From what I'm seeing in my emails, Mozilla Thunderbird keeps changing
>international characters to that format (is encode the right word for this?)
>after the first word that
has an accented letter. On the other hand, Microsoft Outlook, as well as Yahoo
Mail, changes everything in the subject line if there is an accented word in
it. It seems that evolution only "encodes" the words that have an accented
letter.
I guess it's an Outlook bug, but it forced me to switch to Thunderbird
given that most of my customers use Outlook and it doesn't look
professional to "write" emails with orthography mistakes (even if they
are not mine).
I hope that Ubuntu, since it's very focussed on making things work, can
push for a fix to this interoperability problem, even if Evolution
actually follows the spec.
** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Problems with international characters in subject when sending to Microsoft
Outlook
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115844
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