Hi, On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:15:31 +0100 "Walter B. Rasmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When 'edit with external editor' is pressed, sylpheed creates > a file '/home/user/.sylpheed-2.0/tmp/tmpmsg.0x0000000'. This > file already contains the corrupted version of the text and > opens in the editor. > > Sylpheed seems to convert the text before passing it to the > editor and does this depending on the locale (LC_ variables). > The result howerever is unusable, especially when multiple > languages are beeing used. Everything which is not found in > the character set corresponding to the language determined by > the locale setting is then replaced with underscores. (For the > rest of the text sylpheed has not been able to choose the > right encoding on my system.) > > > Some possible solutions: > > - using a fixed encoding like utf8 or iso-10646 > > - adding options for encoding to use with external editor (and with > actions) > > - using the outgoing encoding and including headers This issue has recently appeared on the Sylpheed mailing list. Does the author's proposed solution [0] solve it for you? regards, [0] http://www.sraoss.jp/pipermail/sylpheed/2006-October/000287.html -- Ricardo Mones http://people.debian.org/~mones «Good news. Ten weeks from Friday will be a pretty good day.»
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