Evolution decodes ISO-2022-JP incorrectly.

[Paul Wagland]

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/

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use?

[Paul Wagland (paul-kungfoocoder)]

ii evolution 2.11.4-0ubuntu1 groupware suite with mail client and organizer

Ubuntu distribution : Gutsy.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've sent the bug upstream on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451623

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

upstream comment:

"sounds like a bug in glibc's iconv() functions (we don't decode ourselves at
all, all we do is pass it thru the iconv conversion functions in glibc)"

reassigning to glibc