Re: [tlug] Japanese in Evolution 1.2

[Ryan Shaw <ryan.shaw@example.com>]

On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 23:59, Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 07:47, Ryan Shaw wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 00:55, Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> > 
> > > Has anyone out there been using Evolution 1.2? I upgraded recently on my
> > > RedHat 7.3 machine at home, and now it doesn't display Japanese at all.
> > > I can compose and send Japanese email, but it displays as an series of
> > > underscore characters. It was working fine with Evolution 1.0.8, and
> > > other apps display Japanese correctly -- just not Evolution. What could
> > > be going on?
> > 
> > I'm having the same problem on my Gentoo box. Even 
> > worse, I finally got sick of it and re-emerged 1.0.8...
> > and now *it* doesn't show Japanese either! Same exact 
> > symptoms you describe. 
> 
> This makes me think it's the fault of one of the upgraded packages
> evolution depends on, such as gtkhtml or gal or something.

Could be, though I reverted those back as well. I don't have
time to debug it right now so I'm kind of hoping for a portage
update to magically fix it someday. Either that or switch back
to Sylpheed. I like Evolution but I HATE gtkhtml.

Ryan