[kdepim-users] Encoding-Problems Kmail

[maxmadmax at web.de]

Am Sonntag, 1. Februar 2009 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> On Sunday 01 February 2009, maxmadmax at web.de wrote:
> > Debian Lenny
> > KDE 3.5.10
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >  I am a german user and there are problems with the encoding of
> > emails containig german characters (Umlaute) as oe, ue, ae.
> >
> > Writing emails all these characters are displayed correctly. As soon
> > as the mails are sent and moved to the sent-box, the letters are
> > replaced by latin1 as far as I can tell:
> >
> > Grüße (Gruesse)  ==> GrÌße.
>
> This is UTF-8.
>
> > Incomig emails are sometimes encoded correctly, sometimes not. These
> > may  have external causes.
> >
> > My locale.alias
> > deutsch         de_DE.ISO-8859-1
> >
> > My locale.gen
> >
> > de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
> >
> > I also tried the
> > de_DE.ISO-8859-15 at euro
> >
> > Any ideas how to set the encoding correctly?
>
> Maybe you have set a fixed override encoding in KMail. Check the Message
> Window tab on the Appearance page of KMail's settings dialog.
>
> "Fallback character encoding" should be set to the encoding that most
> messages lacking encoding information are encoded with. I've set it to
> Western European (iso-8859-15).
>
> "Override character encoding" should be set to Auto unless there is a
> very good reason not to do so. Otherwise, all messages are treated as
> being encoded with the "Override character encoding" which will cause
> problems with differently encoded messages.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ingo

Thank You!
The missing "auto" for overide character encoding caused the problem!
Working fine now!

Regards
Max
 
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