[Bug 162707] Cannot read / compose Japanese mails

[Thomas McGuire]

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           Severity|normal                      |major
            Version|unspecified                 |1.9.51



------- Additional Comments From Thomas.McGuire gmx net  2008-05-29 20:42 -------
For me, the encoding menu contains three different Japanese encodings: EUC-JP, jis7 and sjis.
I'm not familiar with Japanese encodings, but isn't one of those two jis encodings aquivivalent to iso-2022-jp?

And you said that when reading some mails, the encoding is not auto-detected. Can you have a look at the mail headers? Is the correct charset in the Content-Type header set? If the header doesn't contain the correct charset, KMail tries to use the system encoding, but that might not work for some reason.

I also tried composing a Japanese mail (I used the keyboard layout switcher with the Japan (jp/kana) layout, not sure if that is correct).
The mail was encoded in UTF8 with a base64 content-transfer-encoding, which seems to be correct.

I tried to manually setting the encoding for composing to jis7, and that did indeed not work, it was sent as UTF8 instead. I'll try to find out why.