[kdepim-users] Re: KMail and characters sets (=20 problem)

Peter peter777 at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Mar 14 01:05:24 GMT 2011


On Monday 14 March 2011 11:43:51 Peter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some emails being sent from KMail refuse to use the char set defined.
> 
> Some lines end in
> 
> = , and then the next line starts in
> 
> =20
> 
> and there are a whole lot of lines with "=20" in them.
> 
> The emails with the 'garbage' have this in the headers
> 
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: Text/Plain;
>   charset="utf-8"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> and the emails that look okay have this
> 
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: Text/Plain;
>   charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> 
> or sometimes a charset of us-ascii I think.
> 
> Is there anyway way to FORCE either is-ascii or iso-8859-1
> 
> What characters will make the email contain garbage ? Like wjat about
> quotes, single quotes, underlines, dashes, double equal signs, etc, etc ??
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter


OOps, I just noticied under  Options  |  Set Encoding  it is set to 'auto 
detect' , so that is the problem; I should select an encoding.

Should I use utf-8 or iso-8859-1 ?

Peter
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