Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: evolution
When evolution shows a message in the ISO-2022-JP character set it
incorrectly starts decoding as 'JIS X 0201-1976 ("Roman" set)' instead
of as ASCII. The specification (RFC 1468) says that text starts in
ASCII, and only switches to Japanese characters through an escape
sequence. The "Roman" set is considered to be "Japanese" for this
discussion. For the most part, this does not matter, as The "Roman"
character set of JIS X 0201 [JISX0201] is identical to ASCII except for
backslash () and tilde (~). The backslash is replaced by the Yen sign,
and the tilde is replaced by overline.
That is, given the mail message:
------_=_NextPart_001_01C7ACC7.8B7C4F65
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
next.url=http\://go.to.there/
It should be displayed as:
next.url=http\://go.to.there/
However, evolution incorrectly displays it as:
next.url=http¥://go.to.there/
** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Evolution decodes ISO-2022-JP incorrectly.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119997
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