[sylpheed:30550] Re: character encoding problems

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Hello,

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:01:42 +0200
Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> It doesn't look like any library bug. After further investigation of
> that problem, in case of usenet messages, I've found that Sylpheed
> does "embedded or locale encoding --> UTF8" translation of messages'
> items, like Subject, before saving a
> 
> ~/.sylpheed-2.0/newscache/news.fido7.ru/fido7.ru.unix.bsd/.sylpheed_cache
> 
> Then this file is used to display the summary view. If the locale
> encoding is different to the subject's encoding and the subject
> doesn't have any embedded encoding the translation is wrong.
> 
> This is why changing the encoding from "View | Character encoding"
> menu doesn't have any effect in the summary view. Sylpheed thinks
> that the summary view items are already properly translated to UTF8,
> but this is not always true. So this is Sylpheed's bug.

Please try "view - Update summary". This will discard the old cache and
create a new one.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>