[Kde-pim] Where can I fix the display of non-latin characters in KAddressbook in GroupDav imported data?

[Roland Wolters]

Hi list,

I have the following setup: a citadel webserver exchanges data with
Kontact/KAddressbook (KDE 3.5.9) via Groupdav. 
First the contacts data exchange was a mess due to a bug in Citadel (in
short, Citadel processed the key values in vcards case sensitive). We fixed
this bug yesterday.

However, we also identified a bug in KAddressbook: non-latin characters are
not displayed correctly in the end.
Here is a short test to verify that:
- Create a new contact with non-latin characters in KAdressbook (like
Michael Bär) -> looks good in KAddressbook as well as in an exported vcard
- Save it, the GroupDav server will now show it as well -> looks good in
Citadel
- Reload KAddressbook, it will re-import the data from the GroupDav server
-> looks bad in KAddressbook, but if you export now the data to a vcard file
from within KAddressbook it will again look good

The last part is the most troubling one: the dat are displayed as it has the
wrong encoding - but internally the encoding is correct and not changed at
all. Also please note that only KAddressbook is affected, not kalender
entries or similar things.

I'd like to fix that - I have some background in Qt and KDE. Also I have
time specifically dedicated to that problem. However, since I've never done
anything in KDE-PIM I would appreciate if you could give me any hint or tip
where I should start looking.
I think btw. that this is the same issue mentioned in the bug
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159795
There a date is also mentionedm but going through the diff might be a larger
pain.

Regards,

Roland Wolters
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