Bug 573955

Summary:	MAPI address book does not show unicode characters
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Oded Arbel <oded>
Component:	evolution-mapi	Assignee:	Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	13	CC:	mbarnes, mcrha
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Description Oded Arbel 2010-03-16 09:59:17 UTC

Description of problem:
I have several contacts in my Exchange address book that have non-english texts in them (in the name or in other details). The MAPI address book under Evolution shows all such characters as question marks (?). The contacts show well in the old Exchange (OWA based) address book as well as with other Exchange clients.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.29.91-1.fc13

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use another exchange client (such as OWA or the OWA based connector) to create a contact with unicode characters. I use Hebrew, but I think other character sets will also cause this problem.
2. View the contact using the MAPI address book
  
Actual results:
All non-english is shown as question markes

Expected results:
The texts should appear as entered.

Comment 1 Oded Arbel 2010-03-16 10:02:31 UTC

Additional info: if I try to create a contact in a MAPI address book and enter some Hebrew text into the name, I get an "Error adding contact" with the very descriptive error text "Other error" :-)

Same when trying to modify an existing contact

Comment 2 Milan Crha 2010-03-16 12:17:09 UTC

Thanks for a bug report. The first issue, about showing UTF8 letters in Contacts addressbook of evolution-mapi account, is part of an upstream bug report [1]. The second issue, about writing such contacts to the server, is probably closely related. Let's see in the upstream bug.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600389