Re: [tlug] Japanese in Evolution 1.2

[Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@example.com>]

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 08:45, Stuart Bouyer wrote:
> On 20 Nov 2002 21:57:08 +0900
> Ryan Shaw <ryan.shaw@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Having the exact same problem, unmerged ALL gnome stuff and evo, deleted
> all config files I could find, then remerged evo-1.0.8, but still no
> Japanese. Moved to sylpheed in the meanwhile, till I can track down the
> prob, second the hating of gtkhtml, and also the lackluster support for
> non-western fontsets in evo and gnome.

Finally got a response to a message I posted on the Evolution list last
week. Here's what I was told:

> you might need to check your gtkhtml font settings.  they are set in >
> the control centre.

I had a feeling it was something like this. I'll try it when I go home
tonight.
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