[kde-linux] font problem, german, Kmail

[Maximilian B. Rost]

Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 schrieb Maximilian B. Rost:
> Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 schrieb Kevin Krammer:
> > On Sunday 16 November 2008, Maximilian B. Rost wrote:
> > > Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 schrieb Kevin Krammer:
> > > > On Saturday 15 November 2008, Maximilian B. Rost wrote:
> > > > > KDE 3.5.9
> > > > > Kmail
> > > > > Debian Lenny
> > > > >
> > > > > utf-8 in locale.gen
> > > > > Komposer-font: utf-8
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > >
> > > look here:
> > > > >  sending emails with german ae=À, oe=ö, ue=Ì there are problems
> > > > > with
> >
> > That looks like UTF-8 characters being interpreted as latin1
> >
> > > Hello, and thank you so far. This is what I found out in between. The
> > > mails leave here and arrive correctly, but when they return, all the
> > > characters are spoiled.
> > > Like this: äöüß are diplayed correctly. But when you send this mail
> > > back to me, there are no more äöüß (as seen above).
>
> Strange here it is correct.
>
> > Is it already wrong when you read my previous mail?
>
> Yes, it is wrong.
>
> > I got it back from the server correctly.
> >
> > > Also here: After sending the mail is moved to my sent-folder, where the
> > > characters get lost.
> >
> > Press 'v' on the mail there. What is the content type?
>
> My first mail in the sent-folder:
> Content-Type: text/plain;
>   charset="utf-8"
>  sending emails with german ae=3D=C3=A4, oe=3D=C3=B6, ue=3D=C3=BC there
> are= problems with the=20
>
> My very first mail as it came back from kde-linux:
> Content-Type: text/plain;
>   charset="utf-8"
>
> And your first mail ist containing several content-types:
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
>   boundary="===============1519971148=="
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> MIME-Version: 1.0
>
> > > What are your settings in KDE and Kmail and in locale.gen? What happens
> > > with them on the way to your sent-folder?
> >
> > I am using de_AT at euro, basically ISO8859-15
> > KMail composer is configured for "us-ascii", "iso-8859-1", "iso-8859-15"
> > and "utf-8" in that order.
>
> I took the same settings now.
>
> > Transport encoding on this SMTP transport is "quoted-printables"
>
> Same here
>
> But it already happens on the way to the sentfolder.
>
> äöüß
>
> Are there any rules? I'll keep an eye on it.
>
> Regards and thank you
> Max


It must have been the Komposer-configuration. Since I changed to

> KMail composer is configured for "us-ascii", "iso-8859-1", "iso-8859-15"
> and "utf-8" in that order.

all the German characters are displayed correctly.


Thank You!
Bernd