[kdepim-users] Kaddressbook

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sun Mar 23 08:08:25 GMT 2008


On Saturday 22 March 2008 23:02:16 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Saturday 22 March 2008, Roland Reuß wrote:
> > Heidelberg, Samstag, 22. März 2008, 20:53
> >
> > Since a while it is well known and documented, that kaddressbook
> > doesn't display special characters, which makes it a mess in zones
> > beyond ASCII 128 -- all the Umlauts and the other suspicious
> > characters are replaced by rectangles.
> >
> > The bug is known and lies somewhere in the relations between kdelibs
> > and kaddressbook. I don't know what to do to make the cure of this
> > bug more urgent, can somebody advice me in this? I don't know whom
> > to contact at SuSE to get this thing done.
> >
> > System:
> > SuSE 10.3
> > kdelibs 3.5.9.53.3
> > kdepim 3.5.9.20.2
> > Kmail is running with DIMAP
>
> Huh? Is this related to using an IMAP address book? My local addressbook
> shows umlauts and Cyrillic letters and Japanese Kanji correctly.
>
I understand that entries made since the change to utf-8 are no problem.  It 
appears to be an incompatibility between the entries in an older character 
set and the current utf-8 setting.

Anne

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