Java Desktop System Release 2 Troubleshooting Guide

Japanese Locales

Cannot Read Evolution Attachments

Problem  

Bug ID: 5021121 

Affects the following locales: 

  • Asian locales

  • Japanese locales

When you write email with Evolution on non-UTF-8 locales, and attach files with localized content, the mailer cannot apply the correct encoding to the file. The recipient of the mail cannot read the attachment correctly.

Solution  

Save the attachment as a file and ensure that the file has the correct encoding.