[Bug 220536] New: Can't use external editor with non-UTF8 coding

[Lothar]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220536

           Summary: Can't use external editor with non-UTF8 coding
           Product: kmail
           Version: 1.12.2
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: lopa at arcor.de


Version:           1.12.2 (using KDE 4.3.4)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

It's no problem to compose a mail using the internal editor of kmail in a
non-UTF8 locale (e.g. LANG=de_DE) and send the mail with this encoding. But
it's not possible to use an external editor with the character encoding of this
locale (e.g. ISO-8859-1). All diacritical characters are replaced by "?". A
workaround is to disable the external editor function in kmail, edit the mail
in an externally opened editor and copy and paste the text into the kmail
compose window. This works, and it should work, too, if the editor is opened by
kmail.

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