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

[Peter]

On Monday 14 March 2011 12:05:24 you wrote:
> 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 ?

Also, when I send or save as draft, after 'forcing' the encoding (this will be 
sent as us-ascii, there is a message stating that some characters may be lost. 
What characters can be lost ?

Peter
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