Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Launch Evolution 2.Open received e-mail with HTML characters Actual results: Characters render incorrectly. See description that follows: A snippet of the source HTML from an e-mail example looks like this: Some people tend to like their spirituality quick and easy. After all, there’s work to do, places to go, people to see. Holiness? I’ll listen to a podcast while I exercise. Servanthood? Our Sunday school class is doing a DVD series on that. Bible study? <i>The One-Minute Bible</i>—and yes, there really is such a thing—is a lifesaver. Patience? Who’s got time for that? Evolution does not properly render certain characters in this HTML message. It displays the above source as follows: Some people tend to like their spirituality quick and easy. After all, theres work to do, places to go, people to see. Holiness? Ill listen to a podcast while I exercise. Servanthood? Our Sunday school class is doing a DVD series on that. Bible study? The One-Minute Bibleand yes, there really is such a thingis a lifesaver. Patience? Whos got time for that? I took the entire source HTML from this e-mail message, saved it off as a separate file (attached), and then tried loading it into Firefox. Firefox renders it properly! It looks like this: Some people tend to like their spirituality quick and easy. After all, there’s work to do, places to go, people to see. Holiness? I’ll listen to a podcast while I exercise. Servanthood? Our Sunday school class is doing a DVD series on that. Bible study? The One-Minute Bible—and yes, there really is such a thing—is a lifesaver. Patience? Who’s got time for that? Expected results: Characters should render correctly Additional info: Attached a sample HTML file that renders correctly in Firefox, but not in Evolution.
Created attachment 346078 [details] Test HTML File Test HTML source file, copied from e-mail, I used to produce the results described in this bugzilla report.
Forwarding this upstream as a GtkHTML bug. Please see [1] for further updates. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584627