Bugzilla – Bug 142548
kmail3: encoding detection problems [testcase]
Last modified: 2009-07-02 08:27:39 UTC
It seems there are som problems with the "auto" encoding in kmail. Although I have this in the header of the mail, the encoding is broken (see the attached screenshot, the mail is really utf-8...): Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have the same problem if I have mail with the following encoding: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 However If I go to menu View->Set Encoding and change the encoding from auto (default) to anything else and than back to auto it works correctly! E.i. all my mails with west-european encoding are rendered correctly.
Created attachment 62875 [details] screenshot of broken kmail encoding
if I close kmail then after next start again the same encoding problem, which can be solved with the same workaround.
Please forward a mail with the header/encoding problem to me at wstephenson@suse.de (NOT my novel.com l address, I don't want it to go through groupwise).
any news here?
I couldn't reproduce the problem with the mail you forwarded, since it's inline utf-8 and you forwarded it with charset="iso-8859-1" in the header, the auto encoding setting picks 8859-1, which looks bad, then manually setting to utf-8 decodes the inline joke correctly, and reverting to auto goes back to the incorrect 8859-1 decoding. What I want to see is the original mail you took a screenshot of - right click on the mail, select Save As.. and then send me the resulting file as an attachment - then I will have a mail with charset=utf-8 in the header, utf-8 in the body and hopefully an encoding probelm I can get my teeth into.
sorry for that. Please feel to free to contact me if you don't have enough info. I have this problem with other e-mails too (not only jokes ;)). It's quite annoying. The e-mail is attached (actually its another e-mail, but the same problem).
Created attachment 75279 [details] problematic mail
That one works for me too (beta8) Is your login using a non-utf-8 locale? What are the values of 'Fallback character encoding' and 'Override character encoding' in Configure Kmail->Appearance->Message Window?
hm...: king:~:$ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= Fallback character encoding: "Western European (iso-8859-15)" (strange) Override character encoding: "Auto"
Created attachment 75389 [details] mail causing the problem on my system This mail (utf8/utf8) triggers the bug for me.
Any news on this? we are close to SLES 10 RC1
for later
bumped again
Reported to Kolab maintaintainers: https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue2345, maybe they can fix it.
No progress since over three years, closing.