[kmail2] [Bug 404863] New: KMail should use UTF-8 as default encoding

[Aurélien Murith]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404863

            Bug ID: 404863
           Summary: KMail should use UTF-8 as default encoding
           Product: kmail2
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: NOR
         Component: composer
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: aurelien.murith at net-c.be
  Target Milestone: ---

Unless you manually change the encoding settings, KMail will send messages
using US-ASCII if possible, then ISO-8859-1 and will only use UTF-8 when using
ISO-8859-1 is not possible.

Since UTF-8 has been a de facto standard for years, the use of ISO-8859-1
sometimes causes a few problems. For example, I regularly send messages to a
mailing list. The list server automatically adds a few lines of text at the
bottom of my messages, using UTF-8 encoding. The result is that those added
lines appear broken, because their encoding does not match the one of my
messages, which is ISO-8859-1.

I cannot see why it would be better to keep using ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8,
so I think KMail should now default to UTF-8. This is what most other mail
clients do.

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