Re: [tlug] Evolution and Japanese

[BOTi <9915104t@example.com>]

Ben Gertzfield wrote:

> >>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com> writes:
>
>     Jonathan> However, I gave up on Evolution because it encodes
>     Jonathan> subject lines in UTF-8 and there is no option to change
>     Jonathan> this.  Since I'm not really interested in having
>     Jonathan> Japanese mail with mojibake subject lines, I continue to
>     Jonathan> use mutt, which is really the best MUA for a sysadmin
>     Jonathan> anyway.
>
> I talked to the Evolution team, and they said they simply need
> someone who understands the Japanese issues inherent to email
> to work on it.

Evolution first needs to be ported to GNOME2 imho. Whatever they do to fix
the problems with Japanese, i18n will still stay broken with the current gtk
1.2 libs.
By the time evolution gets ported to gnome2, sylpheed will be stable (and
ported) on that platform.  I'll rather swith to that.



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