decode issue on kmail for Japanese UTF-8 encoded e-mails

Masaru Nomiya nomiya at galaxy.dti.ne.jp
Wed Nov 2 14:09:23 GMT 2022


Hello,

Sorry for my mistake.

In the Message; 

  Subject    : decode issue on kmail for Japanese UTF-8 encoded e-mails
  Message-ID : <87r0ylsn39.wl-nomiya at galaxy.dti.ne.jp>
  Date & Time: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:49:14 +0900

[MN] == Masaru Nomiya <nomiya at galaxy.dti.ne.jp> has written:

MN> Hello,

MN> As you probably know, for Japanese-language e-mails, there are
MN> three types of character codes;

MN> 1. ISO-2022-JP
MN> 2. UTF-8
MN> 3. Shift_JIS

MN> Here, kmail decodes ISO-2022-JP-encoded and Shift_JIS-encodede-mails
MN> correctly, but cannot decode UTF-8-coded e-mails or Shift_JIS coded
MN> -e-mails correctly, and the mail becomes garbled and cannot be read at
MN> all.
[...]

For Shift_JIS e-mails, I've found no problems with the decoding.

Thanks.

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