[kdepim-users] Scrambled text when replying to a mail with an attachment...

[r bartlett]

Okay, Ingo, I have determined that for some reason when I send a regular email (without an attachment) it sends in iso-2022-jp charset, which is readable.  If I reply to an email which has an attachment, it goes out in utf-8, which appears as garbage at the other end.

Can I force the encoding for this particular reply?  Currently my work around is to remember to reply only to emails without attachments.  But I forget half the time and have to resend the message.  If I could ensure that all my emails to this particular person go out as iso-2022-jp then I think the problem will be solved.

Thanks for any help or input.


--- On Sat, 5/24/08, kdepim-users-request at kde.org <kdepim-users-request at kde.org> wrote:

>(Very sorry, Ingo.  I'm
> trying again.  Is this more legible?  I also added my Kmail
> version info...)
> 
> I have noticed that in certain cases (in this case, when
> sending mail to a Japanese cellphone) they receive
> scrambled letters when I reply IF the message they sent me
> had an attachment. For example:
> A: sends B normal message in Japanese
> B: replies to A
> A: can read the mail just fine
> 
> A: sends B message with a photo or attachment
> B: replies to A
> A: gets "mojibake"scrambled text
> 
> I suspect this is due to text-coding. I do not know if the
> cellphone uses UTF-8 or EUC or Shift-JIS. But it is
> repeatable. Normally, there's no
> problem sending or receiving emails. It's only when
> replying to an email with an attachment that the
> receiver's mail gets scrambled.  Any
> ideas?  I'm running Kmail 1.9.9 on a current Fedora
> Core 8 system, but this problem was also the same in an
> older FC5 system.On Friday 23 May 2008, r bartlett wrote:
> > I have noticed that in certain cases (in this case,
> when sending mail
> > to a Japanese cellphone) they receive scrambled
> letters when I reply
> > IF the message they sent me had an attachment. For
> example: A: sends
> > B normal message in Japanese
> > B: replies to A
> > A: can read the mail just fine
> >
> > A: sends B message with a photo or attachment
> > B: replies to A
> > A: gets "mojibake"scrambled text
> >
> > I suspect this is due to text-coding. I do not know if
> the cellphone
> > uses UTF-8 or EUC or Shift-JIS. But it is repeatable.
> Normally,
> > there's no problem sending or receiving emails.
> It's only when
> > replying to an email with an attachment that the
> receiver's mail gets
> > scrambled.  Any ideas?  I'm running Kmail 1.9.9 on
> a current Fedora
> > Core 8 system, but this problem was also the same in
> an older FC5
> > system.
> 
> Yes, this sounds like a problem with the text encoding. I
> suggest to 
> check which encoding is used for messages that are readable
> and which 
> encoding is used for messages that are not readable. To
> determine the 
> encoding have a look at the message source (with
> View->View Source) and 
> look for charset=something.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo


      
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