KMail and Charset handling

Jerome Yuzyk jerome at supernet.ab.ca
Mon Apr 12 21:26:04 BST 2004


On Monday 12 April 2004 01:08 pm, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> On Saturday 10 April 2004 00:35, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > I had to wipe out my RedHat 9 + KDE 3.1.4 installation and
> > re-installed with Fedora Core 1 (with KDE 3.1.4). Gosh it was sooo
> > nice to see my KDE environment come back just like it was before!
> >
> > BUT, now KMail does an odd thing. If I reply to a message using the
> > toolbar icon, when I try to send the reply there's a dialog
> > complaining that KMail can't find the right characterset and offers to
> > send the reply without the quoted text or let me change the encoding.
> > I have tried us-ascii, the Western iso- sets and the utf-8 sets and
> > nothing works. HOWEVER, if I right-click on the sender address and
> > reply, everything goes just fine. The only "fancy" character in my
> > replies have been pound signs in the quoted text, and not all my
> > failed replies have had them.
>
> There's a list of character sets that KMail tries to use when sending
> mail which are listed in the KMail settings. KMail encodes your mail
> with the first character set that contains all characters in the mail.
>
> Add UTF-8 there if you don't have it. I think it is there by default. I
> have us-ascii , iso-latin-1 iso-latin-15 and utf-8 in that order.
>
> -- robin

I have  us-ascii, utf-8, utf-8 (locale) and iso-8859-1 listed and still 
have the problem.

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