[Kde-pim] Using kmime lib to create UTF-8 email message

[David Jarvie]

On Wed, January 20, 2010 12:03 am, David Jarvie wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
> On Tuesday 19 Jan 2010 23:24:23 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
>> On Tuesday 19 January 2010, David Jarvie wrote:
>> > I attach the whole email text which was returned by encodedContent().
>> > The two ways of producing it (setBody() and fromUnicodeString()) both
>> > produce the same result. The original body text was some Cyrillic
>> > text conveniently provided by a spam email which I was sent):
>> >
>> > Під час клацання
>>
>> The problem is that this Cyrillic text was converted twice from Unicode
>> to utf-8, i.e. the result of the first conversion was again interpreted
>> as Unicode and then recoded to utf-8.
>
> I'm not sure how that would have been done, since converting to UTF-8
> changes it to a QByteArray, not a QString. Would a double conversion be
> produced by this? (Note that I'm not aware of this actually having
> happened):
>
>    bodyText = QString(originalBodyText.toUtf8())
>
>> Are you sure that bodyText contains the correct Unicode string? How did
>> you set bodyText? If bodyText does already contain a utf-8 encoded
>> version of the text instead of the Unicode version then this would
>> explain your observations.
>
> I've printed out the bodyText QString using kDebug(), and it shows the
> correct Cyrillic text on konsole (which has UTF-8 set as the default
> character encoding). Is this sufficient evidence that it contains the
> correct Unicode string, or could that be misleading?

I've checked further, and I'm convinced that the QString supplied to
fromUnicodeString() is the same as is supplied to
KCal::Alarm::setEmailAlarm() when writing to the calendar. It is stored
correctly as Cyrillic text in the calendar file.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author - http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm

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