Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:16:12 +0300 From: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@fbsd.ru> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: evolution + evolution-mapi + iconv and charset CP20866 Message-ID: <1261768572.2673.10.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1261759388.1555.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1261595748.51825.38.camel@localhost> <1261756288.1555.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1261757998.2710.24.camel@localhost> <1261759388.1555.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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>>> CP20866 is the Windows encoding for KOI8-R. I'm not sure why libiconv >>> does not support it. >>=20 >> Looks like it was supported in past, and then support was just dropped. >> >> Looks like iconv broken in place of reading charset aliases from file. >> > No. Now that I look at the code, it is not libiconv that reads this > file, but libcharset. =20 So, evolution-mapi missuses libiconv ? >> PS. Can't read your message in evolution due to "Formatting message" >> issue (known evolution issue, fixed in recent version). Does MC repo >> have 2.29.3 evolution or later ? > Not yet. What is the bug ID? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D361145 reported as partially fixed in http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.29/2.29.3/NEWS Joe >=20 > -------- =E9=D3=C8=CF=C4=CE=CF=C5 =D3=CF=CF=C2=DD=C5=CE=C9=C5 -------- > =EF=D4: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > =EB=CF=CD=D5: vova@fbsd.ru > =EB=CF=D0=C9=D1: gnome <gnome@freebsd.org> > =F4=C5=CD=C1: Re: evolution + evolution-mapi + iconv and charset CP20866 > =E4=C1=D4=C1: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:51:28 -0500 >=20 > On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 22:15 +0300, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote: > > Hi=20 > >=20 > > Anybody knows answer on following questions: > > - why libiconv has no support for CP20866 charset (alias for koi8-r) > > - or why /usr/local/libdata/charset.alias file is not processed by > > libiconv > > - or why evolution-mapi provides mail messages with that charset=20 > >=20 > > Problem reading mail with evolution + evolution-mapi some messages are > > not displayed correctly, on stderr error message about inability to > > convert CP20866. > >=20 > > Same error shown by iconv. > >=20 > > $ iconv -f CP20866 -t koi8-r /etc/hosts > > iconv: conversion from CP20866 unsupported > > iconv: try 'iconv -l' to get the list of supported encodings > > $ >=20 > CP20866 is the Windows encoding for KOI8-R. I'm not sure why libiconv > does not support it. >=20 > Try setting CHARSETALIASDIR to be the full path to charset.alias, and > see if that works. >=20 > Joe >=20 >=20 --=20 Vladimir B. Grebenschikov vova@fbsd.ru
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