evolution + evolution-mapi + iconv and charset CP20866

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 22:16 +0300, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> >>> CP20866 is the Windows encoding for KOI8-R.  I'm not sure why libiconv
> >>> does not support it.
> >> 
> >> 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.
>  
> So, evolution-mapi missuses libiconv ?

No, I don't think so.  I think iconv probably needs an internal alias
added for CP20866, but I don't know enough about this encoding (and how
it may differ from KOI8-R) to say for certain.  Bland seems to be more
clued in on libiconv.  Perhaps he can comment.

> 
> >> 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=361145
> 
> reported as partially fixed in
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.29/2.29.3/NEWS

It doesn't sound like this is the same bug you are reporting.

Joe

> 
> 
> 
> Joe
> 
> > 
> > -------- Исходное сообщение --------
> > От: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> > Кому: vova at fbsd.ru
> > Копия: gnome <gnome at freebsd.org>
> > Тема: Re: evolution + evolution-mapi + iconv and charset CP20866
> > Дата: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:51:28 -0500
> > 
> > On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 22:15 +0300, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> > > Hi 
> > > 
> > > 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 
> > > 
> > > Problem reading mail with evolution + evolution-mapi some messages are
> > > not displayed correctly, on stderr error message about inability to
> > > convert CP20866.
> > > 
> > > Same error shown by iconv.
> > > 
> > > $ iconv -f CP20866 -t koi8-r /etc/hosts
> > > iconv: conversion from CP20866 unsupported
> > > iconv: try 'iconv -l' to get the list of supported encodings
> > > $
> > 
> > CP20866 is the Windows encoding for KOI8-R.  I'm not sure why libiconv
> > does not support it.
> > 
> > Try setting CHARSETALIASDIR to be the full path to charset.alias, and
> > see if that works.
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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