Arabic encoding not included

[magilus]

Binary package hint: evolution

In Evolution, it is not possible to view some mails, for example http://launchpadlibrarian.net/7982849/%28www.%20Z%20E%20E%20M%20A%20L%20L%20.com%29%20E%20C%20O%20C%20%20CU%20%20CCE.msg which have an Arabic encoding.

As part of this bug, the ISO-8859-6 encoding has been added to Evolution, which enables Evolution to open Arabic mails, but not all.

[magilus (magilus)]

The encoding that I miss is the Arabic Windows-1252 encoding.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Do you have that problem only with evolution?

[magilus (magilus)]

The desktop on which it appears is running Ubuntu 6.10.

I can not tell you if it appears in other applications since it is only one contact who writes mails with that encoding (I think that it is the Hotmail Web Interface). All other Arabic mails and applications work fine.

In Outlook, it is possible to view the mail correctly by selecting "Arabic Encoding", but in Evolution, I miss Arabic in View -> Message encoding.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you attach an example of mail having that problem to the bug?

[magilus (magilus)]

I will try to obtain one.

An other person had (?) the same problem (thread is old): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2166337

[Tyler Wagner (tyler)]

I am the Tolaris from the above Ubuntu Forums post. Attached is an old, unimportant business email that is in Windows-1252 encoding. I've stripped out identifying names and addresses. I hope this helps.

[magilus (magilus)]

You forgot to attach it :-)

Thanks,
Martin

[Tyler Wagner (tyler)]

Let's try that again.

[Tyler Wagner (tyler)]

Analysing that email again now, it's actually got question mark chars in it, 0x3F. I'll look for another example. I don't get many now.

[magilus (magilus)]

See attached file.

When opening with kmail for example, the mail is not displayed correctly, but via View -> Set encoding, I can select Arabic (windows-1256) and it is displayed correctly then.

In Evolution, that encoding entry is missing in View -> Character Encoding.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've forwarded that upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416031

[genie (geniehost)]

Hello All,

The Arabic character set is Windows-1256 not Windows-1252, see more about character set here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/charsets/charset4.asp

[magilus (magilus)]

Hi!

I added a note to the GNOME bug, and also corrected me in the comment from 2007-02-18.

Thanks!

[magilus (magilus)]

Sebastien, I created a fix attached in the GNOME bug report. Would be nice to have that in Feisty.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for the work on it

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for the work Martin:

 evolution (2.10.1-0ubuntu2) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/90_list_arabic_encoding.patch:
     - change by Martin J�rgens to list arabic encoding (Ubuntu: #82322)
   * debian/patches/91_revert_uri_change.patch:
     - revert the change that broke the command line calendar opening
       (Ubuntu: #84554)

[genie (geniehost)]

This bug still exist on Ubuntu 7.04 - the Feisty Fawn; when they will fix it?!

[magilus (magilus)]

Already fixed, works fine for me.

[genie (geniehost)]

Martin, in my system Unbuntu 7.04 still same problem - Arabic Windows-1256 characters not included in character encode menu - how can I fix this?!

[magilus (magilus)]

Windows-1256 are not included, this is right.

For me, the mail attached only worked selecting Windows-1256 in Outlook.

In Evolution, it is also being displayed correctly using Arabic ISO 8859-6. This also applies to other Arabic mails.

Does this work for you? If this is not the case, an example mail would be great.

[genie (geniehost)]

No Arabic ISO 8859-6 not working for me too, and in the attachment find an email as example.

Regards,

[magilus (magilus)]

Using WINDOWS-1256 I can't display that mail, either (with Kmail), there isn't any content.

[genie (geniehost)]

I can open it with MS-Outlook, and I can read it too when I select Windows-1256, you can subscribe in this group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zeemall/) to get arabic emails from them as example, emails comes from that group normally I cannot read it with Evolution but I can with MS-Outlook when I select Windows-1256 character :-(

[magilus (magilus)]

Sorry, I do not have an idea. The mails that I had problems with are being displayed correctly using the patch, I do not have an idea how to fix your problem. I will reopen this bug.

[genie (geniehost)]

Which patch you are talking about?! and how can I apply it to my system?

[magilus (magilus)]

I am talking about this patch: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=85207&action=view

It adds the possibility to select Arabic (ISO 8859-6) in Evolution and has already been applied to the version of Evolution in Feisty.

[genie (geniehost)]

No Martin, the patch you mention above not fix arabic problem in my system, I believe Windows 1256 character need to be added to Evolution to solve the problem.

[magilus (magilus)]

Genie, I will try to prepare an Evolution package for you which also adds Windows 1256 characters.

[magilus (magilus)]

Fixed .debs can be found here: http://gamesplace.info/opensource/ubuntu/evolution-arabic-windows.tar.bz2 . Download the tar.gz, extract it to desktop.

Then run

cd ~/Desktop
sudo dpkg -i evolution_2.10.1-0ubuntu2_i386.deb evolution-common_2.10.1-0ubuntu2_all.deb evolution-plugins_2.10.1-0ubuntu2_i386.deb

and start Evolution.

Please tell me if you can view the mails then, as I can't open them with any mail program on Ubuntu.

[magilus (magilus)]

Sorry, I mixed up encodings. New .deb on its way..

[genie (geniehost)]

Hello Martin,

I install the files which you give me, the encode in which you include it was Arabic (Windows-1252), and doing nothing when I select it.

regards

[Mike Tyrell (mike-tyrell)]

Hey there

Im a new user its been 3 months windows free

Martin thanks for the big help and support
I do get alot of arabic email and the encoding is not working for me
the one you sent before showed the arabic letters but most of them are in the right places
such as the letter (KA) in arabic is in place of the letter (HA)
I tried thunderbird and works fine but I used outlook express before so evolution has every thing I need and more
the .deb file you sent did not help and after installing it I get an update notification from ubuntu for the same files I just installed

Mike

[Mike Tyrell (mike-tyrell)]

Hello Martin

I think I found a way to fix the problem on my system.
when I go to Preferences => Mail Preferences => Default character encoding: the I go down to other and in the box I type "windows-1256"

then I go to the ".evolution" folder and into "mail/local"
then I open the file "inbox" with the text editor

the I replace all "iso-8859-6" with "windows-1256" and then save the file when I reopen evolution every thing is fixed

I noticed from looking at the source of a few emails that evolution changes the encoding on emails that are 64bit but not 8bit html

Im still new to linux/ubuntu since I recently converted from MS Windows XP so if im doing any thing wrong please explain
thanks

[genie (geniehost)]

hello there,

this is not fix the problem, Arabic encode 1256 need to be added to Evolution.

regards,
Genie ;-)

[Mike Tyrell (mike-tyrell)]

Hi
I know it does not fix the problem but it works for me till the problem is fixed

thanks for emailing me :)

On 8/8/07, genie <email address hidden> wrote:
> hello there,
>
> this is not fix the problem, Arabic encode 1256 need to be added to
> Evolution.
>
> regards,
> Genie ;-)
>
> --
> Arabic encoding not included
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82322
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[genie (geniehost)]

Mike Tyrell wrote:
> Hi
> I know it does not fix the problem but it works for me till the problem is fixed
>
> thanks for emailing me :)
> is the problem fixed? just brife me about the fix.
>

regards,
Genie

> On 8/8/07, genie <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>> hello there,
>>
>> this is not fix the problem, Arabic encode 1256 need to be added to
>> Evolution.
>>
>> regards,
>> Genie ;-)
>>
>> --
>> Arabic encoding not included
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82322
>> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
>> of the bug.
>>
>>
>
>

[genie (geniehost)]

Hello Martin,

where is the new .deb file with windows-1256 encoding?!

[eva dany (unsichtbarkeit)]

hi,
it is june 2009, and i have a fresh ubuntu 9.04
and i can confirm that the bug still exists: no arabic windows-1256 encoding in evolution.
i don't know if there is a fix for this
regards