Package: sylpheed-gtk2 Version: 0.9.99-2 Severity: normal Tags: l10n Upstream; not debian-specific.
My system locale is ISO-8859-1. If I send characters that are in this character set, Sylpheed (correctly) uses "encoded word" to ensure that they appear in the headers. All fine. I recently began corresponding with Russian friends, using KOI8-R. I can easily (easily enough) set the encoding for Sylpheed to KOI8-R, and type Russian in the body of the email. Again, fine. Sylpheed displays headers received from correspondents which contain cyrillic characters in encoded-word format correctly. However, because ISO-8859-1 doesn't include these characters, Sylpheed replaces them on outgoing mail with underscores (really replaces them, that is, not just replaces them on display; what's worse is that they seem to display correctly, while composing, but are replaced with _____ _____ _____ when the message is sent). This happens even on replies. That is, for a reply, Sylpheed has seen the encoded-word format for KOI8-R, and decoded it properly, and displays it. But it won't wrap the headers back up in KOI8-R encoded word; instead it discards them, replacing them with underscores. Recommended: currently, the preferences for the client as a whole have to be set to a different encoding in order to use a different encoding for a particular message. Instead, add "Select Encoding" to the Message menu when composing a message. Then, when preparing headers, check the message encoding first, and use encoded-word with that charset in preference even to the system locale. This would significantly improve ease of use for users who correspond with people whose native language is different. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.26 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages sylpheed-gtk2 depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcompfaceg1 1989.11.11-24 Compress/decompress images for mai ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.8-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgpgme6 0.3.16-2 GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.14-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libldap2 2.1.30-3 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.6.0-3 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpisock8 0.11.8-10 Library for communicating with a P ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
