UTF-8 and KMail

[Robin Rosenberg]

On Tuesday 08 June 2004 01.47, Pupeno wrote:
> I opened the file (that is, the file in my Mail folder) and it looked like
> this:
> I'm having trouble with kmail when displaying characters like=20
> "=C3=A1=C3=A9=C3=AD=C3=B3=C3=BA=C3=B1=C3=A0=C3=A8=C3=AC=C3=B2=C3=B9=C3=A2=
> =C3=AA=C3=AE=C3=B4=C3=BB=C4=9D=C4=89=C4=B5" in the incomming mail.
>
> Personally, I believe kmail is 'scrambling' something when fetching the
> mails or something like that, what do you think ?

Not, scrambling. it's encoding. First your characters get character codes 
according to Unicode, then they get transformed to a byte sequence according 
to UTF-8 rules, and finally they get packaged in MIME-quoted-printable 
encoding for the on-wire mail format. Basically all bytes with the eigt bit 
set get encoded.

á has the unicode code point 225 which in UTF-8 becomes the byte sequence 195 
161 which in hexadecimal notation is 0xC3 0xA1 which in MIME printed quotable 
form is =C3=A1

-- robin
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